The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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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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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 sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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