Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
-23
4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
27
Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
41
In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
39
Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
15
The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
155
The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
180
Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
-104