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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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
9
Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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