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The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
The symbol on the 'pound'key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
The ‘Big Dipper’ is known as ‘The Casserole’ in France.
There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
There are only 14 blimps in the world.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

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