A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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