The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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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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