The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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