The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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