A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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Your brain is 80% water.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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