The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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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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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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