The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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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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