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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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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