Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a 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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