A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
7
Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
134
In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
16
Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
89
No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
107
Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
65
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.
34
Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
42