A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every 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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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 average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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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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