Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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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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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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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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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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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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