The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
56
85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women!
38
The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
6
Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
11
Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money. The rest exists only on computers.
20
In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed!
55
If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
39
The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
136