Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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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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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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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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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