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...that 2005 was endorsed by the United Nations as the World Year of Physics and by the Institute of Physics as Einstein Year?
...that the village of Ytterby in Sweden has four of the elements in the periodic table named after it; Erbium, Terbium, Ytterbium and Yttrium? This is because the elements were first found in minerals from the quarry near the village?
...by using your mitochondrial DNA, you can identify your maternal ancestors that lived as long as 5,000,000 years ago?