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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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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