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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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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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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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