The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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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 are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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