Skeptics Guide to the Universe #839

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Item #1 Earth is the only world (planet, dwarf planet, or moon) in our solar system with >10% nitrogen in its atmosphere.


Item #2 The human body is 3.3% nitrogen by mass.


Item #3 No plant can fix its own nitrogen, but a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria has evolved many times, and also been evolutionarily lost many times.

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‘Science is not a set of facts. It’s not an ideology. It’s just a system that humans created that is really, really good at uncovering truth.’ - Hank Green