Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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