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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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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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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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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