A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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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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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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