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    A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.
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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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    Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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    All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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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 only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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    A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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