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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Cold water weighs more than hot water.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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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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