One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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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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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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