The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

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Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.
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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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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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Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.  Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc.
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A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.
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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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