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 average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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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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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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