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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, and more.
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It took 200,000 years for humans to reach 3 billion in number. It took 40 years for the next 3 billion.
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One jar of Nutella is sold every 2.5 seconds throughout the world.
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