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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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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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