A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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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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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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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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