The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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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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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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