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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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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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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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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