Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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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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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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