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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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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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