A teen in Michigan built a working nuclear reactor. He taught himself how to build it as a weekend hobby project in his basement from ages 15-17 for $3500.
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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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The offspring of two sets of identical twins are legally cousins but genetically siblings.
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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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More books are written, published and sold per person per year in Iceland than anywhere else on the planet. One in ten Icelanders will become a published author in their lifetime.
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There are actually seven different types of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Mirror-Image, Polar Body (Half Identical), Mixed Chromosome, Superfecundation, and Superfetation.
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