The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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