Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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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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