Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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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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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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