- Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- 99% of our solar system's mass is the sun.
- It takes 1,100 watts to power a toaster.
- In 1900 the average life span in the US was 47.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Gold never erodes.
- 60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day.
- Pez was invented in 1927.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
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