The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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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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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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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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