Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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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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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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