The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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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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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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