Fun Facts
About Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
September 21, 2006
- Astronauts can't burp in space because the lack of gravity prevents gas from separating liquid and solids in the stomach.
- If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it would land heads about 4950 times - a little less than 50 percent. We know this from probability, which is the branch of math that deals with calculating the likelihood of a given event's occurrence.
- The longest hand-launched paper airplane flight was 27.6 seconds on October 8, 1998 by American Ken Blackburn at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
- Microsoft chairman Bill Gates began programming computers when he was 13 years old.
- The astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission were given special sterling-silver eggs filled with Silly Putty to carry into space to play with and to help keep tools from floating around while in zero gravity.
- There are 25 billion ounces of gold mixed into ocean water. Experts say it is too expensive to try an extract any of it.
- The first cell phone call was made in 1973 by its inventor, Martin Cooper. The phone weighed 2 pounds! Some of today's cell phones weigh only 3 ounces.
- Some new golf balls contain a radio frequency identification chip that, with a hand-held device helps you easily locate your ball.
- A 16-pound bowling ball hits the lane with a force of over 2,000 pounds per square inch.
- TV and film star Ashton Kutcher was a biochemical engineering major before he left the University of Iowa to pursue modeling.
- Did you know "geocaching" is a new adventure sport that you can play with a global positioning system (GPS) device? It's like a high-tech treasure hunt.
Fun Facts (added daily)
| Date | Subject | Posted by: |
|---|---|---|
| 03/12/2008 | nice jokes i'll see you next year chow | mallory jones maliz1992@hotmail.com Prichard Alabama |
| 03/30/2008 | LOL, i luv Geocaching... Most people have no clue wat that means! | Ellie egirl95@hotmail.com Farragut skewl |
