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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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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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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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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