The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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