Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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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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