Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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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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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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