The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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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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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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