Birthday Paradox
23 people. In a room of just 23 people, there’s a 50-50 chance of at least two people having the… more
23 people. In a room of just 23 people, there’s a 50-50 chance of at least two people having the… more
For the last few billion years, the Moon’s gravity has been raising tides in Earth’s oceans which the fast spinning Earth attempts to drag ahead of the… more
Colonel Sanders got fired from dozen jobs; was a lawyer who once assaulted his own client in court; started a… more
The longest surgery to date performed in 1951. It was a 96-hour marathon to remove a 300-lb ovarian cyst from… more
Duck Hunt works by flashing the screen black when you shoot, except where there are ducks and a photodiode in… more
The overall amount of water on our planet has remained the same for two billion years, 80% of the earth’s… more
Up to 60% of the human adult body is water. According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed… more
A Supernova explosion produces more energy in its first ten seconds than the Sun during the whole of its 10-billion-year lifetime and… more
Machine-spun cotton candy was invented in 1897 by dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C. Wharton, and first introduced to a wide… more