Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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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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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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