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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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