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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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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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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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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