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Did you know
... that the discovery of chemical elements
curium
and
americium
(pictured)
was first announced on a radio show for children in 1945?
... that
The Waybacks
, a four-piece band from
San Francisco Bay
, played covers from
The Beatles
' album
Abbey Road
at the 2010
MerleFest
?
... that one of the
Google driverless cars
was able to drive itself down the narrow
hairpin turns
of
San Francisco
's
Lombard Street
?
... that it took 340 days of continuous experiments to prepare 22 milligrams of
berkelium
for the synthesis of 6 atoms of
element 117
, which took another 150 days?
... that the chemical element
einsteinium
was discovered in the debris of the
Ivy Mike
nuclear test
(pictured)
in 1952?
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