Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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