One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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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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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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