In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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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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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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