Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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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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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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