One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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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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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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