Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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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 storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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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.
16
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 have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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