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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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