A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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 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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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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