A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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