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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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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