Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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