A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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