Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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