MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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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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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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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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