Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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