Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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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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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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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