Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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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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