Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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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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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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