One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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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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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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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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