Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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