Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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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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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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