Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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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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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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