The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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