Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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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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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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