0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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