If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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