A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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