The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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