The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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