Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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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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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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On average a woman has 4 sexual partners in her lifetime.
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Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.
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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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