Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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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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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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