The bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.
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Research has determined that most people are happiest at 7:26pm on a Saturday night.
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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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When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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In Cuba, hitchhiking is encouraged and government vehicles are legally required to pick up hitchhikers.
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Any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size. The 32nd object would be big enough to knock over the Empire State Building.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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