Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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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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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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