Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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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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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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