Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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