Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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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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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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.
6
The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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