The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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