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The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
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The 'pound' key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
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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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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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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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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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Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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