Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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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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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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