A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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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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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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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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