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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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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