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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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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