There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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