Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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