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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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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