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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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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