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 use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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