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    A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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    Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.
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    German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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    Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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    A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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    The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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