When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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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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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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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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