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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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