Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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