There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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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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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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