Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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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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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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