The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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