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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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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