Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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