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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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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