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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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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