One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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