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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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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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