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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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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