MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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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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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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