Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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