- A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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- A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second.
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- Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.
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- Hydrogen is the most common atom in the universe.
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- If all the gold sitting in the oceans and seas were mined, every person on this planet would get about 20 kilograms of gold each.
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- In only eight minutes, the Space Shuttle can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour.
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- One tree can filter up to sixty pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
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- Orville Wright, a pilot, was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.
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- The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.
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- The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.
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- The USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957.
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- There has only been 193,000 metric tonnes of gold discovered to date.
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- There is an automobile model called Stutz Bearcat.
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- Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers.
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- When the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere, it was traveling at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour. This is the fastest impact speed ever achieved by a man-made object.
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- A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently but Chinese archaeologists.
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- The only commercial aircraft that is able to break the sound barrier is the Concorde.
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- There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.
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- The world's first underground was the London Underground in1863. It has 275 stations and 253 miles of track.
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- Every day, the Hubble telescope transmits enough data to fit 10,000 standard computer disks.
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- It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivilent amount of energy as 30 household lightbulbs to complete an orbit.
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- The Great Comet of 1843 had a tail that was over 300 kilometres long.
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- The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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- The iron disulfide (Pyrite) is considered "fool's gold" because it looks very similar to gold.
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- The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897.
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