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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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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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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