In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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