Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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All 13 minerals necessary for human life can be found in alcohol beverages.
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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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Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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