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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Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
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At 90 degrees below zero, your breath will freeze in mid-air and fall to the ground.
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A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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Caffeine boosts memory.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.
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