The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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