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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.
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    MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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    Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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    At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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    Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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    Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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    Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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