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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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