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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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    4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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    In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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    One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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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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    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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    Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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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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