Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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