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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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