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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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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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!
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