The sound of a tiger's roar can travel a distance of up to 2 miles (~3 km).
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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You can hear the blood flowing through your ears if you find a quiet place and cover them tightly.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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