A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every 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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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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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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