Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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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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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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