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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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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