The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
40
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
117
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
134
One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
20
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.
15
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.
34
Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
146
If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
67