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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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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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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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