Uranus is visible to the naked eye.
Benjamin Franklin was first to suggest daylight saving.
The most abundant metal in the Earths crust is aluminium.
It snowed in the Sahara desert on 18 February 1979.
On average, an iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
The far side of the moon was first photographed by a Russian satellite in 1959.
Captain Cook [...]
The Earth is the only planet that living things lives that we discover so far…
The Earth is the only planet with oxygen and water supply that we discover so far…
Well, how long is our Earth’s equatorial?
It’s 4,007,501,668.56 Centimeters,
40,075,016.69 Meters,
1,577,756,562.42 Inches,
131,479,713.54 Feet,
43,826,571.18 Yards,
24,901.46 Miles,
21,638.75 Nautical Miles,
23,548,605.41 Smoots.
The time of a day is 23 [...]
Global warming, or climate change, is a subject that shows no sign of cooling down. Here’s the lowdown on why it’s happening, what’s causing it, and how it might change the planet.
Is It Happening?
Yes. Earth is already showing many signs of worldwide climate change.
• Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees [...]
There are 230 joints in the human body.
The average human head weighs about eight pounds.
The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.
J. Edgar Hoover wouldn’t let his drivers make left turns.
Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts salt water to fresh water.
The metal band that connects the pencil eraser to the [...]
The picture at left is the Scutum region seen in the summer sky. Click on the image to see at a larger size. The pinkish and brownish areas are the Milky Way, the edge of our galaxy. Scutum is a constellation. A constellation is a pattern of stars. When you look in the night sky [...]
“Go,” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
For several decades the well-known Belgian mystery writer Georges Simenon wrote, on the average, one Novel every eleven days. Besides the more than 230 Novels he penned under his own name, Simenon wrote 300 other books under a pseudonym.
The origin of the Latin word for [...]
The Great Orion Nebula in the sword of Orion is pictured at left. Stars are being formed in the cloud of gas and dust. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Gas, dust and debris from star explosions and around star forming regions are called nebulae. A nebula can reflect light (Reflection Nebulae) or [...]
