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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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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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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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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