For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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