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Facts in category: Physics
| A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles or about 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers. |
| The angle at which light reflects off of water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees. |
| Photons have zero mass. |
| The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent. |
| A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. |
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