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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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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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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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