Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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