Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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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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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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