Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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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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