If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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