0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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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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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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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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