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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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
304
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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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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
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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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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