A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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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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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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