Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Your brain is 80% water.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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