Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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