Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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.
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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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