Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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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.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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