In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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