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The Smell After It’s Rained is a Mix of Plant Oils and Bacteria

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever noticed a pleasant, clean smell after a rain storm? Especially if it’s a rain storm following a long period of dry weather? Some people notice it immediately, even detecting the scent before they have noticed water falling from the sky. Some people find it hard to detect, but it’s there. It leaves a pleasant, clean and earthly …

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The Total Weight Of Ants On Earth Is About The Same As The Total Weight Of Humans

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Would you believe that the total weight of ants is the same as humans on Earth? Hold on one moment please. Did we just say that the weight of ants is the same as humans on Earth? This can’t be possible, or can it? Ants are a mere fraction of our size after all, but …

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The Origin of Computer Bug Came from the First Computer Bug Which Was a Moth

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Reading Time: 2 minutes How often do you use the word “bug”, as in “there’s a bug in the system” to describe a niggling little problem with a computer? Unless you’re a computer technician that repairs other people’s computer problems, hopefully, this is a term that only comes up rarely. But have you ever wondered why it’s called a …

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Smallpox Virus is Still Alive

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Reading Time: 2 minutes On 9 December 1979, a commission of eminent scientists declared that smallpox was eradicated. Five months later on 8 May 1980, the World Health Organisation endorsed the declaration themselves saying the terrible virus was now eradicated and no longer a threat to the worldwide human population. But eradicated and extinct are two very different things. That’s because …

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10 Percent Of All Marriages Are Between Cousins

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Reading Time: 2 minutes When you read the fact about the Icelandic incest app you may have thought it was a joke, or you may have even had a chuckle at the idea. You probably even initially thought to yourself how many people really marry a cousin? Well it would appear that quite a few people do. To be …

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