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 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a 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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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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