Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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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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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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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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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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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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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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