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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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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