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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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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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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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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