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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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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