A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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