Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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