If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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