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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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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.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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