Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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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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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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