Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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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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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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