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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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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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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