Cold water weighs more than hot water.
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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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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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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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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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