Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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