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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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    All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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    Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.
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    German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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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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    Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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