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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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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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