Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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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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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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