Animals can rain from the sky
The universe is beige
Poisoning can make masses to dance hysterically
The Moon is moving away from the Earth
Belly button lint comes from your underwear
Animals can naturally explode
You can still have an erection once dead
The interstellar gas cloud that comprises Sagittarius B contains a billion billion billion (yes, that’s three orders of billion) liters of alcohol.
Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
Time slows down near a black hole; inside it stops completely.
Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury.