If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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