Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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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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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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