Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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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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