In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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