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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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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