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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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
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The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
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The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
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At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
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One human hair can support 3 ounces.
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