MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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