If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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