Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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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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