Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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