Science & Space

You're more likely to die in a car accident driving to buy a lottery ticket than you are to win the Powerball jackpot.

If you yelled continuously for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would theoretically produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.

There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.

If two pieces of the same pure metal touch in the vacuum of space, they can permanently fuse together through a process called cold welding.

Every day, approximately 100 tons of extraterrestrial material, mostly in the form of tiny space dust particles, enters Earth's atmosphere, contributing to our planet's ever-so-slight increase in mass.

It would take approximately 177 years to drive a car to the sun at highway speeds.

Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter!

Your brain is 80% water.

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

There is a poisonous plant that leaves the victim with a smile on their face at the time of death.

Dirty snow melts faster than clean.

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

US scientists calculated that Santa would have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all the world's presents on Christmas Eve, travelling at 650 miles a second.

Scientists can determine the color of some feathered dinosaurs by analyzing fossilized melanosomes—microscopic pigment structures preserved in ancient feathers.

It would take about 17,000 McDonald's strawfuls of water to fill a 34-gallon bathtub.

Caffeine can enhance memory consolidation, helping your brain better retain information learned shortly before consuming it.

A fully developed hurricane releases as much heat energy as a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes!

Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.

Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.