If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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