Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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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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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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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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