For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006).

Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.

On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.

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