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Playing Portal 2 is better for your brain than brain-training apps like Lumosity.

Leucippus was the first scientist who proposed atoms.

There are almost 5 billion internet users in the world.

The biggest tsunami reached over 1000 feet.

Nintendo, the renowned video game company, was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.

The first-ever computer mouse with a scrollwheel was introduced by Microsoft in 1996.

The human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in the average lifetime.

Over 7 million people in the world have careers in science.

The smell of chocolate makes people want to buy romance novels.

A million seconds is 11 days. A billion seconds is 31 years.

The human eye has a 576-megapixel resolution.

Venus spins clockwise. It‚Äôs the only planet that does!

The longest bicycle in the world is over 135 feet long.

In 2018, global e-commerce sales exceeded $2.8 trillion.

Violin bows are commonly made from horse hair.

The world’s first 1-terabyte hard drive was introduced by IBM in 2007. It was the size of a small refrigerator.

People used to believe the Earth was the center of the universe.

The first computer-generated movie, “Toy Story,” was released byPixar in 1995.

The first website with a clickable hyperlink was created in 1991.

Urine was once used as a detergent

The term “bug” to describe a glitch in a system originated when a moth caused a malfunction in an early computer.

SPAM is a mash-up of the words "spice" and "ham"

The first-ever computer virus to infect the MS-DOS operating system, “Brain,” appeared in 1986.

In 2011, ten-year-old Kathryn Aurora Gray discovered a supernova (a star that has run out of energy, explodes, and then collapses before it dies) that no one else had seen before.

Inertia keeps you from falling out of a rollercoaster.

Your mouth produces about one liter of saliva a day.

If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth and dropped a book down, it would take 42 minutes to reach the bottom.

The world’s first 1-megapixel digital camera was released by Kodak in 1986, weighing a whopping 8.8 pounds.

The largest scoop of ice cream weighed more than 3,000 pounds.

Ripe cranberries will bounce like a ball. (Go on, try it!). They also float.

Even in an airplane, a trip to Pluto would take about 800 years.

Its Latin word, scienta means knowledge.

However, on the planet Venus, each day can last 243 earth days. That is close to a year!

The world’s first commercially available mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, was introduced in 1983 and weighed 2.2 pounds.

The world’s first computer chess program capable of defeating a reigning world champion was IBM’s Deep Blue, which defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.

It’s scientifically possible to start a fire using flatulence.

Sound does not carry in space.

The first-ever video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, came with plastic overlays that could be placed on the TV screen to create different game environments.

The world’s first computer modem, the Bell 101, was capable of transmitting data at a speed of 300 bits per second.

One million Earths could fit inside the sun!

It takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.

The world’s first voice-activated virtual assistant, Apple’s Siri, was introduced in 2011 with the release of the iPhone 4S.

The first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree.

There are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth.

A million seconds is about 12 days while a billion seconds is about 32 years.

The footprints on the moon will be there for 100 million years.

A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the sun.

The first computer mouse was made of wood.

The first-ever commercial text message was sent in 1992, offering a discount on a new phone.

The printing press, which revolutionized the sharing of information, was invented by Gutenberg around the year 1440.

Cilantro and coriander are considered to be the same.

Many scientists believed the world was flat until the 17th century.

Explosives funded the Nobel Prize.

There is 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.

An ice cube takes up about 9% more volume than the water used to make it.

The total number of mobile phone subscriptions worldwide is estimated to be around 5 billion.

The father of electricity lived his childhood in poverty.

The world’s first digital music player, the MPMan F10, was released in 1998 and could store up to 32 megabytes of music.

The Apollo 11 guidance computer was considered “basic” by today’s standards, with less computing power than a modern-day calculator.

The world’s first computer printer, the IBM 3800, could print at a speed of 1,100 lines per minute.

2 is the only even prime number.

The human eye can differentiate approximately 10 million different colors.

The Great Wall of China is not visible from the moon with the naked eye.

Can you guess the number of seconds in a year? It is 31,536,000 seconds!

There’s no period in “Dr. Pepper.” It was removed because the old logo font made it look like “Di: Pepper.”

One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh six billion tons.

The average American household has over 10 connected devices, including smartphones, tablets, and smart home devices.

'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.

Not all diamonds are colorless.

The first-ever domain name registered was symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.

The world’s first 4G smartphone was the HTC Evo 4G, released in 2010.

The first computer programmer was Ada Lovelace in the 19th century.

Credit card EMV chip technology has been around since 1986. It was first implemented in France, with Germany following shortly after.

If you add up each of the opposite sides of a dice, the sum total will come up to 7.

Our taste buds grow up with us.

The most expensive computer ever built, the IBM Sequoia, cost around $100 million.

Tooth enamel is stronger than bones.

The human body is made up of 206 bones.

Touch phones don’t detect certain materials because of electrical charge.

Human teeth are just as strong as shark teeth.

The world’s first home video game console with interchangeable cartridges, the Atari 2600, was introduced in 1977.

The Eiffel Tower was constructed using over 18,000 individual iron parts held together by 2.5 million rivets.

Apple’s iPhone has more computing power than NASA’s computers during the moon landing.

The world’s first website is still online. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee and went live in 1991.

Butt-shaped robots are used to test phones.

In 2010, Google tried to find out how many books there were in the world. They reckon there are about 130,000,000 of them.

The first-ever text message was sent in 1992 and said, “Merry Christmas.”

Johann Conrad Dippel created Dippel’s oil and claimed it was elixir.

The average cloud weighs an estimated 1.1 million pounds.

Gyroscopic effect keeps a bike balanced.

There is an underwater version of rugby, unsurprisingly called “underwater rugby.” It is a contact sport between 2 teams of 6 competing underwater in a pool to score goals while freediving.

Humans are the only animal that blushes.

Fast food restaurant ice is often dirtier than toilet water.

The first-ever search engine, Archie, was created in 1990 and indexed FTP sites to help users find specific files.

You can use a blue whale’s wax earplug to work out its life history.

There are roughly 2 pints of water in every cubic foot of soil on Mars.

The term “robot” was coined by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1920 play “R.U.R.” It comes from the Czech word “robota,” meaning forced labor.

Otters sleep holding hands.

Scientists found nearly 1,500 new bacteria species in belly buttons.

The first-ever commercial cell phone call was made by Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, in 1973.

The moon is very hot (224 degrees Fahrenheit, average) during the day but very cold (-243 degrees average) at night.

The most complete memorization of Pi lasted 70,000 decimal places.

In 2019, scientists discovered the world‚Äôs oldest known work of art on an Indonesian Island called Sulawesi. It was created 44,000 years ago.

There's only one number that has the same amount of letters as its numeric value, the number four.

The world’s first computer-generated feature film, “Toy Story,” was released by Pixar in 1995.

The world’s first computer to use integrated circuits, the IBM 360, was introduced in 1964.

Shaking ketchup makes it 1,000 times thinner

It takes up to two weeks to make a jelly bean.

The first YouTube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, titled “Me at the zoo.”

Stomach acid can dissolve razor blades.

The world’s first 1-petabyte hard drive, capable of storing 1 million gigabytes of data, was announced in 2018.

The world’s largest data center, the Range International Information Group Data Center in China, spans over 6.3 million square feet.

The first-ever webcam was created at the University of Cambridge to monitor a coffee pot.

The world’s first virtual reality headset, the Sensorama, was created by Morton Heilig in 1962.

Approximately 90% of all the data in the world has been created in the last two years.

There are computers for the Amish, which have no internet, videos, or music.

The first-ever smartphone with a built-in GPS was the Nokia 6110, released in 1999.

Marie Curie is the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different sciences.

The Earth has a mass of 5.97 x 10^24 kg.

The first-ever social media platform, SixDegrees.com, was launched in 1997 and allowed users to create profiles and make friends online.

Tungsten is the hardest metal.

The world’s first barcode was scanned at a supermarket in 1974, and the product was a pack of chewing gum.

You can charge phones with pee.

It is scientifically possible to die from drinking too much water.

Scientists say tears tell you the reason for someone crying. If the first drop comes from the right eye, its tears of joy. Otherwise, its because of pain.

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth.

The Earth's core is as hot as the surface of the sun.

If you get exposed to radiation, you need to get naked.

The median age of the worlds population is around 30 years, as of 2019.

Time goes faster at the top of the building than at the bottom.

The world’s first website to offer online shopping was Amazon.com, which initially sold books and was launched in 1995.

Neptunes days are 16 hours long.

A thousand seconds is about 16 minutes.

In the UK in 2019, renewable energy generated more electricity than fossil fuels for the first time ever. Also, did you know Norway gets 0% electricity from coal? And Germany has installed 1 kW of renewable capacity per person in the last decade? (Climate change is the biggest global issue of our time, but there are some things to feel positive about!)

The scientific term for brain freeze can make your head hurt, too.

Scientists found the 8th continent.

Space Jam was released closer to the moon landing than to today.

The first digital camera invented in 1975 weighed 8 pounds and had a resolution of 0.01 megapixels.

The world’s most powerful supercomputer can perform over 200 quadrillion calculations per second.

One of the greatest paleontologists did not go to school.

Humans haven’t stop evolving.

The first-ever 1-terabyte consumer hard drive, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000, was released in 2007.

"Kummerspeck" is the German word for the weight you put on from emotional eating.

The world’s fastest internet speed was recorded at 178 terabits per second, allowing you to download the entire Netflix library in one second.

Human bodies give off a tiny amount of light that glows.

If you are shot by a sniper you will be dead before you hear the gunfire.

It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow.

The world’s first website had a URL of “info.cern.ch” and was hosted on Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer.

Feldspar is the most common mineral on Earth.

There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

The Pacific Ocean is the biggest body of water in the world.

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes about 243 Earth days for Venus to complete one rotation on its axis.

Tuna has the highest protein content for fish.

The loudness of a monkey is relative to the size of its testicles. Researchers found that the smaller the testicles, the louder the monkey.

The world’s first voice recognition system, IBM’s Shoebox, could recognize digits from 0 to 9.

Female animals can sometimes reject sperm.

You can tell the weather by counting a cricket's chirps!

Ham the Astrochimp was the first hominid in space, launched on Jan. 31, 1961.

The first-ever public cell phone call from a handheld device was made by Martin Cooper in 1973 to his rival at Bell Labs.

A jiffy is an actual unit of time, equivalent to 1/100th of a second.

The first-ever email was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971. It was sent between two computers that were side by side.

The world’s first website domain, Symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985.

The world’s first laptop computer, the Osborne 1, weighed 24 pounds and was introduced in 1981.

You can’t sink in the Dead Sea.

The world’s first 1-gigahertz processor, the Intel Pentium III, was introduced in 2000.

An estimated 50% of all gold ever mined on Earth came from a single plateau in South Africa: Witwatersrand.

The most expensive domain name ever sold was “Voice.com,” which was acquired for $30 million in 2019.

Fingernails grow faster than toenails — about three times faster, in fact.

Apples float because they are one-quarter air!

The world’s first commercial video game, “Pong,” was released by Atari in 1972.

The world’s first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, was released in 1972 and could only play simple tennis games.

The first-ever computer to use transistors instead of vacuum tubes, the IBM 7090, was introduced in 1959.

There are 118 chemical elements.

When you do a Google query, 1000 computers are used to find the answer in 0.2 seconds.

Nuclear power plants are safer work environments compared to offices.

Stephen Hawking never won a Nobel Prize.

The world’s first computer virus for Microsoft Windows, “WinVer 1.4,” was released in 1992.

If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib.

The average person spends over 4 hours a day on their mobile devices.

A 5th-grader accidentally created a new molecule in 2012.

Everyday on the planet Neptune is just about 16 hours long.

The world’s first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace, who wrote algorithms for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine in the 1840s.

The entire human race can fit inside a sugar cube.

A hurricane releases enough energy in one second to equal that of 10 atomic bombs.

87% of scientists believe that climate change is mostly caused by human activity.

The first-ever spam email was sent in 1978 to 393 ARPANET users advertising a new computer.

The density of ice is 10% lower than that of water.

The scientist behind modern ballistics survived five fatal sword blows.

50% of museum items are mislabeled.

Sound is visible. - Every time you see a vibration, you’re seeing sound.

The ocean contains 20 million pounds of gold.

The first-ever computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) was the Xerox Alto, developed in 1973.

The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur — you know, dinosaur pee — is almost 100%.

The scientific method was created in the 17th century.

Scientists weigh planets through their gravitational pull.

Galileo Galilei created the scientific method.

You are three times more likely to get a virus on your computer from a religious website than from a pornographic website.

Some of the apples you can buy in a grocery store are over a year old.

The world’s most remote ATM is run by Wells Fargo in the Antarctic. The ATMs serve around 1,200 residents at the U.S. scientific facility.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Scientists successfully altered a human gene for the first time in 2017.

The world’s first smartphone with a built-in camera was the Kyocera VP-210, released in 1999.

A “jiffy” is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.

The speed of a computer mouse is measured in 'Mickeys.'

The world’s first 1-terabyte solid-state drive (SSD) was introduced in 2009.

In 2009, Stephen Hawking held a reception for time travelers but didn’t publicize it until after. This way, only those who could time travel would be able to attend. Nobody else attended.

The first 1-gigabyte USB flash drive cost $10,000 in 2000. Today, you can get one for less than $10.

Banana peels have almost no friction.

Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly in space, on June 18, 1983.

The strongest virus had an 80% mortality rate.

You can use your fingers to get the times table of 9.

And 90% of the cells that make us up aren't human but mostly fungi and bacteria.

The first-ever computer virus to spread via email, the “Morris Worm,” infected thousands of computers in 1988.

If you’re shot by a sniper, you’ll be dead before you hear the gun

Pieces of the same metal become permanently stuck together if they touch in space.

The world’s first computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964 and was made of wood.

The Office of Alien Property Custodian confiscated Nikola Tesla’s inventions when he died.

An 11-year-old girl proposed the name for Pluto after the Roman god of the Underworld.

75% of the world’s diet is produced from just 12 plants and five different animal species.

The first-ever computer game, “Spacewar!,” was created in 1962 by Steve Russell.

Helium changes our voice because of its density.

The world’s first commercial digital camera, the Dycam Model 1, was introduced in 1990 and had a resolution of 376x240 pixels.

Gelatin doesn’t break if you tap it because of surface tension.

The first-ever digital voice assistant, IBM’s Shoebox, was introduced in 1961 and could recognize 16 spoken words.

The storage capacity of the first commercially available hard drive in 1956 was only 5 megabytes.

It takes eight minutes and 19 seconds for light to travel from the sun to Earth.

The world’s first smartphone with a built-in fingerprint scanner was the Motorola Atrix 4G, released in 2011.

Text messages sent by eagles bankrupted a scientific study.

The world’s first 3D-printed car, the Strati, was created in 2014 and took just 44 hours to print.

Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, has saltwater geysers that are 20x taller than Mt. Everest.

The world’s first smartphone with a built-in fingerprint scanner was the Toshiba G500, released in 2007.

The first-ever website to host user-generated content was Geocities, launched in 1994.

One day on Venus is almost 8 months on Earth.

The first-ever consumer 3D printer, the RepRap, was capable of printing its own parts and was released in 2005.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you as a shark is.

Scientists created a synthetic uterus for lamb.

Thomas Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb.

The average person has 5 liters of blood.

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes about 243 Earth days for Venus to complete one rotation on its axis.

A neutron star can spin 600 times in one second.

We’re living in a time with the most carbon dioxide ever recorded in the atmosphere.

Laika was the first animal in space.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

When dissolved in water, Viagra can make cut flowers stay erect for up to a week longer than they usually would.

Swimmers sweat underwater.

The world’s first home video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, had no sound capabilities.

Hot water freezes more quickly than cold water.

The world’s first touchscreen tablet computer was the GRiDPad, introduced in 1989.

The human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in the average lifetime.

More than half of your body is bacteria.

The earth isn’t round. It’s not flat either, but more of an oblong type of shape.

The only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table is J.

Water makes a different sound whether it’s hot or cold.

The world’s first touchscreen smartphone was the IBM Simon, which had a monochrome LCD and a stylus.

Sound creates heat.

Jupiter is the fastest-spinning planet in the solar system (it only takes about 10 hours to complete a full rotation on its axis).

The sun doesn’t change color during sunset.

The first-ever video uploaded to YouTube was titled “Me at the zoo” and featured co-founder Jawed Karim.

Rain contains vitamin B12.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm that has been raging for over 200 years.

Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet.

Oxygen isn’t colorless.

Tomatoes have more genes than humans.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time, equivalent to 1/100th of a second.

Every atom in your body is billions of years old.

Atoms are mostly empty space.

Friends share more DNA than strangers.

It can be too warm to snow, but never too cold.

The Nobel Peace Prize is the highest scientific honor.

The world’s first gigabit Ethernet switch, the ForeRunner ASIC, was developed by Kalpana in 1992.

The average person spends about 6 years and 8 months of their life using smartphones.

A rubber tire is made up of only one molecule.

The longest one-syllable words in the English language are 'scraunched' and 'strengthed.'

Global warming is affecting gravity.

A jiffy is an actual unit of time, equivalent to 1/100th of a second.

The first-ever commercial computer, the UNIVAC I, was introduced in 1951 and weighed around 29,000 pounds.

The biggest robot in the world weighs 11 tons.

The world’s first portable cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, had a price tag of $3,995 in 1983.

The first-ever smartphone, IBM’s Simon, was introduced in 1992 and had features like email, a touchscreen, and a calendar.

The entire source code for Apollo 11’s guidance computer was only 72 kilobytes.

A "butt load" is an actual unit of measurement, equivalent to 126 gallons.

In 2014, Princeton researchers determined that Facebook would lose 80% of its users by 2017.

By using big data, Wal-Mart determined that people stock up the most on strawberry Pop-Tarts and beer before a hurricane.

The world’s first computer virus was created in 1983 and was called “Elk Cloner.”

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

There is an “internal deodorant” that makes it so your gas and poop don’t stink

The IBM 5150, introduced in 1981, is considered the first true personal computer.

The world’s first computer virus to spread over the internet, “ILOVEYOU,” infected millions of computers in 2000.

Most dinosaurs are known from just a single tooth or bone.

Isaac Newton believes the world will end after 2060.

Saturn's rings are made from trillions of chunks of orbiting ice.

The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.

Silk is the strongest natural material.

Wind does not have a sound of its own. You only hear the sound of wind when it blows against something else.

Even if it were traveling at the fastest speed a manmade spacecraft has ever achieved, it would take 19,000 years to reach the closest star to our solar system.

If you folded a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the moon.

Alpha Centauri isn't a star, but a star system. It is 4.22 lightyears away.

The original Apple Macintosh had only 128 kilobytes of RAM.

Pure hydrogen can kill you.

The world’s first GPS satellite, Navstar 1, was launched in 1978.

Facebook has over 2 billion people on its network.

Viagra can help plants stand up straighter and last longer.

The Great Wall of China is not visible from the moon with the naked eye.

There are 10 million tons of diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn.

The world’s first computer, the ENIAC, weighed 27 tons and occupied a space of 1,800 square feet.

The Kilauea Volcano is the most active volcano.

The term “Wi-Fi” doesn’t stand for anything. It is a marketing term coined by a branding company.

Did you know what the fear of numbers is called? Arithmophobia. Now it makes sense why they call it arithmetics!

The first-ever computer with a graphical user interface, a mouse, and a keyboard, the Xerox Star 8010, was released in 1981.

The first-ever website to sell a product online was NetMarket, which began selling a CD by Sting in 1994.

Tropical storms and hurricanes started getting "named" in 1953.

Thomas Edison electrocuted an elephant to death to prove a point.

The first-ever computer animation, “Hummingbird,” was created by Edward E. Zajac in 1962.

Yawning is biological air conditioning.

The world’s first computer virus designed to steal money, called “Zeus,” emerged in 2007 and infected millions of computers.

If you folded a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the moon.

The average person unlocks their smartphone around 150 times a day.

Gasoline can contain between 150 and 1,000 different chemical compounds.