Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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