Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
89
Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
181
Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
41
The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
61
At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
55
Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
146
MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
20