Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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