Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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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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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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