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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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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