One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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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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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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