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| CO₂ in the atmosphere is making us fat by causing us to eat more food. |
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| Crystal meth enhances memory in snails as well as in humans. |
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| Charles McKinley shipped himself from New York to Dallas by air freight. |
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| Scientists can now magnetically store a byte of data in 96 atoms vs 500,000,000 on your hard drive. |
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| The Automobile Association was formed in 1905 to hire bicyclists to look for police speed traps and warn motorists. |
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| Type for 10 seconds. Roy Maxion can tell your age, sex, culture and old hand injuries. |
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| Kyoto's Mimizuka monument holds the ears and noses of 38,000 Koreans killed during the invasions 1592-8. |
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| Spending time at high altitude leads to weight loss. |
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| Dallen Trealoff was awarded $17.5 million after his boss stole his notebook hard drive and erased it. |
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| Oxford researcher, Emma Cohen, found that group workouts produced more endorphins and were more effective. |
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| Fossil records indicate mass extinctions occur with surprising regularity every 26 million years. |
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| Snails with counter-clockwise twisting shells can waste weeks trying to mate with a clockwise one. |
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| The more orgasms you have the longer you will live and the healthier you will be. |
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| Women caught killing their cheating lovers receive lighter sentences than men in the same situation. |
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| The island of Bermeja, off the coast of Mexico, has gone missing. It appeared on maps from 1539-1844. |
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| Our brains detect anxiety in the smell of other people's sweat even if we aren't conscious of it. |
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| Rodent dreams? Live the life of a hamster at Villa Hamster, a B&B in Nantes. |
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| Queen ants sleep 9 hours a day. Worker ants get half as much sleep and are forced to take power naps. |
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| Pormpuraawans arrange time from east to west. Europeans left to right. Arabs right to left. |
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| Squid fly through the air by jet propulsion. Faster than swimming and more energy efficient. |
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