The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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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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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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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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