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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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