Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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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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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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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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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