- If you could drive your car upwards, you would be in space in less than an hour.
- Clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor).
- Every living thing on the Earth contains carbon.
- You use 72 different muscles while speaking.
- Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- The average person swallows 295 times during a meal.
- The average age at which America's presidents have taken office is 54.
- It takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing.
- Each year, the Moon moves away from Earth by about four centimeters.
- The term 'disc jockey' was first used in 1937.
|