Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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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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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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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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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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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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