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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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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