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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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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