Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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