Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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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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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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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 Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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