Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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