Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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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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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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