The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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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 use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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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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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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