Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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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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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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