Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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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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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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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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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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