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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer used to work 130 hours a week.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A scientist used magnetism to levitate a frog. Magnetic fields lightly distorts the orbits of electrons in the frog's atoms.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A USB memory stick is more powerful than the computer system that guided the Apollo spacecraft to the moon.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Venus spins in the opposite direction from most other planets so that on Venus the sun rises in the west.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The first person in history whose name we know is "Kushim," an accountant from Mesopotamia who lived around 3200 B.C.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Charlie Chaplin's daughter played Charlie Chaplin's mother in the 1992 biopic "Chaplin."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word 'Nicotine' is derived from Frenchman Jean Nicot who introduced tobacco to France in 1560.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart"♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Marijuana absorbs nuclear radiation. In 1998, the Ukraine's Institute of Bast Crops planted industrial marijuana to help remove contaminants in the soil near Chernobyl.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The brain can't actually feel pain despite its billions of neurons.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 160,000 pieces of bread.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If you could see as well as the Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, you would be able to read the fine print on a newspaper 1 mile away.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Earth spins at around 1,000 mph and hurtles through space in its orbit around the sun at about 67,000 mph.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A large raindrop, about the size of a house fly, has terminal fall speeds of about 10 meters per second (20 mph).♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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13 people died of alcohol poisoning in 1875 in Ireland when a brewery caught fire causing whiskey to flow through the streets.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The solar system is 4.54 billion years old.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Scientists have been able to genetically modify mosquitos so that they are unable to transmit malaria to humans.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A Martian day is about 44 minutes longer than an Earth day.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The average human will spend around 180 days of their life exercising.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A man in Michigan has 29 college degrees, and is currently studying to get his 30th.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The number of Americans who don't read books has nearly tripled since 1978.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The world's largest underwater volcano, Tamu Massif, is the size of New Mexico.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Lenticular clouds are rare formations that can look like UFOs. They are formed when wind encounters an obstruction such as a mountain.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Shenandoah salamander doesn't have lungs and breathes through its skin.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The average human will spend 6.8% of their lives socializing with someone they love, or the equivalent of around 1,769 days.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Australian Plate is moving about 7 centimeters (2.8 inches) northwards every year.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A UN report stated that 4 million people died in Indonesia as a result of famine and forced labor during the WW2 Japanese occupation.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Scientists have created a functioning guitar the size of a human blood cell.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Instead of "Once upon a time," many Korean folktales begin with "Back when tigers used to smoke..."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
