Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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