When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
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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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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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