The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
65
The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
17
The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
40
For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
34
A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
15
The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
61
One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
20
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
134