Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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