If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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Humans are capable of running 40 mph according to a study by bio-mechanical expert Dr. Matthew Bundle. Today's fastest man, Usain Bolt, has a top speed of 28 mph.
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Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.
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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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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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Research has determined that most people are happiest at 7:26pm on a Saturday night.
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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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