Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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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.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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