A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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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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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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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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