A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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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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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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