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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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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