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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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 single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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