Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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