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    In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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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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    The 'Unicorn Bull'
    In 1933, a biologist created a "unicorn bull".
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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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    The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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    Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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    A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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