Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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