A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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