The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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