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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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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