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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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
15
0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
101
Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
41
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 bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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