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Amazing fact: Honey bees died

The honey bee is the only bee that dies after stinging.

Amazing fact: DNA

DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

Amazing fact: Dry ice

Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide, CO2.

Amazing fact: Female breast cancer

Female patients who had been imaged several times with fluoroscopy as a teenager or young woman as treatment for tuberculosis have been found to have an increased risk of breast cancer years later

Amazing fact: IARC

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is a part of the World Health Organization, classifies X-ray and gamma radiation as a "known human carcinogen.'

Amazing fact: Children received radiation dose 

A recent study found that children who received a radiation dose of a least 30 mGy (milligray) from a CT scan to the bone marrow had three times the risk of leukemia compared to those who received a dose of 5 mGy or less

Amazing fact: CT scans on chest

A CT scan on the chest is equivalent to being exposed to two years of naturally occurring radiation

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