The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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