In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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