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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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