Light travels from the Sun to the Earth in less than 10 minutes.
The Photons emitted from the Sunβs surface travel at the speed of light to reach our eyes in only 8 minutes and 20 seconds.
2013
In the 16th Century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if they didnβt provide enough coffee for them.
By the late 15th century coffee had become a common beverage in the Near East, but the Ottoman Turks had mastered the art of it
2017
President Harry Truman appointed Georgia Neese Clark as the first female Treasurer in 1949.
Since then, every subsequent Treasurer has been a woman
2020
Medical Waste.
Healthcare facilities like hospitals, dental clinics, nursing homes, physicianβs offices generate a large amount of medical waste daily
2020
The 1st man to exit and return to the same aircraft in flight without a parachute.
The French skydiver and base jumper, Patrick de Gayardon who also invented the modern wingsuit
2018
Sylvester Stallone holds the record for the most Raspberry awards.
with a whopping 14 nominations for worst actor and a further 3 for worst supporting actor
2020
In Japan, chefs have to train for over two years in order to qualify to serve Pufferfish.
Two years of training followed by a test which a third of applicants fail.
2012
evidence suggests that brain ketone metabolism remains unimpaired in alzeheimer's patients.
seems easy enough to test. do ketogenic patients get better?
2019
Ernesto Miranda's supreme court case led to the Miranda rights.
Miranda himself was later killed in a bar fight. His killer got away with it... because he chose to remain silent.
2020
In 1986, the night before the Challenger shuttle exploded, Allan McDonald, the Director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project, Refused to Sign the Launch Recommendation over Safety Concerns..
The resulting improvements led to 110 shuttle missions in which the boosters came back pristine.
Pound cake got its name from its recipe.
The early recipes of pound cake called for one pound of butter, one pound of eggs, and one pound of sugar
2020
There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand in the world.
There are 10 times more stars in the night sky, with 70 sextillion stars being visible.
2012
A fitness app accidentally revealed the location of military bases around the world.
The app uses GPS to track users activitity, this information was used create a heat map
2018
Unethical psychological experiments.
The Little Albert experiment is considered to be among the most unethical psychological experiments of all time.
2020
Astronauts can grow approximately 5 cm in height when in space.
The lack of gravity in space causes the discs between the vertebrae to expand a little.
2013
