The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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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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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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