Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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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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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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