At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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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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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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