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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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