Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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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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