Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light 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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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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