Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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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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