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A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.
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At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.
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The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
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Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
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A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
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The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the 'American Pie.' (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
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If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
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Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
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Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
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If you spell out consecutive numbers, you have to go up to one thousand until you would find the letter 'a'
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