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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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