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Cigarettes contain radioactive polonium. Researchers have estimated that the radiation exposure from a pack of cigarettes is equal to that from one chest X-Ray, give or take.
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Where does the radioactive element in cigarettes come from? The answer is from fertilizer made from apatite rock, which contains uranium. Uranium decays to radioactive polonium-210. Polonium enters the tobacco plant through both the leaves and roots.
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Scientists are baffled by the “Mozart Effect”. Listening to this piece causes a decline in abnormal electrical activity in brains of those with untreatable epilepsy. It improved spatial thinking. There’s no satisfactory explanation yet.
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Scientists are studying this effect. They have tested Haydn, Wagner, Nickelback, Beethoven, Judas Priest. Nothing else apart from Mozart seems to work.
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Thirty seconds of this track are enough to get an antiepileptic effect.