A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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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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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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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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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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