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    Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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    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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    Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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    Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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    A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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    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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    A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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