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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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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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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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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