Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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