Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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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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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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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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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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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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