The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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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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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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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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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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