Our brains have a negativity bias and will remember bad memories more than good ones.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Some people have a "natural alarm clock" allowing them to wake up when they want. This is actually caused by a burst of the stress hormone adrenocorticotropin.
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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