The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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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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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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