Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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