Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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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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