In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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