Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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