Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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