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 bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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