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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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    Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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    The 'Unicorn Bull'
    In 1933, a biologist created a "unicorn bull".
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    A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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    0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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    Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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    The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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