0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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