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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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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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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