Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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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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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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