Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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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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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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