The Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one with each eye.
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It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure!
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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There was a pre-WWII movement called Technocracy, which held that scientists and engineers should take over the government and economy from politicians and economists. The leader of the movement was known as the Great Engineer.
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The record for the longest scientifically documented period without sleep is 264.4 hours (eleven days).
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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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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