Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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