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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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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