A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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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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