Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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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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