Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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