There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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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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