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Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.
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The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
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A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
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The 'pound' key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
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Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
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Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.
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Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.
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Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.
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Starfish have no brains.
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The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
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Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
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North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.
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The word 'queue' is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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