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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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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