Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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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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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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