A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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