If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has been going since at least the 16th century.
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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