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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?