Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
408
Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
3
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
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
117
The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
33
Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
304
Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
116
The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
18