In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Cold water weighs more than hot water.
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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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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