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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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