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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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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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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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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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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