Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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