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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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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