Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.

Google receives more than 200 million search queries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.com are between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second.

One lump of sugar is equivalent to three feet of sugar cane.

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