Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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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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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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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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