A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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