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    One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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    Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.
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    Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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    Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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    The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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