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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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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