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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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