A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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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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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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