The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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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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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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