Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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