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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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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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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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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