Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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