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After the Pulse night club shooting on June 12, 2016, when the cops were investigating, one would think it was pretty quiet in there. But the sad reality was a cacophony of ringing cell phones. So many friends and loved ones calling people they knew were there; hoping they'd answer the phone and say: I'm okay...… 阅读更多内容

Never say you’re being “eaten alive” by mosquitos, again. That was an actual method of execution. Scaphism was an ancient form of torture and execution where you’d cover someone with honey, stick them in a hollowed log, and let nature... run its course.… 阅读更多内容

Humanity could solve homelessness in the USA easier than you might think. On average, there are over 17,000,000 vacant homes in the USA at any given time. Meanwhile, according to EndHomelessness.org, there are roughly half a million homeless people in the USA. The United States have enough vacant homes to give each homeless person, several homes...… 阅读更多内容

Are we there yet? A car travelling at an average speed of 100 km/h would take around 30 million years to reach Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Sol. Better stock up on some food and clean clothes because...… 阅读更多内容

Soviet Union, 12/04/1961. The soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first human in space. He flew in the Vostok 1 capsule and managed to complete one orbit around Earth before safely initiating planetfall. His first space flight lasted exactly 1:48 hours.… 阅读更多内容

A full solar eclipse lasts less than 7.5 minutes; a full lunar eclipse lasts 104 minutes.… 阅读更多内容

The Namib Desert, located in Namibia on planet Earth, is considered to be the oldest desert in Earth's history. Scientists believe it to be between 55 and 80 million years old. Comparatively, the Sahara, which is between 2 and 3 million years old, is much younger. The Namib Desert is home to the tallest sand dunes on the planet. Some of these sand dunes can reach a height of up to 300 meters. Besides being high, the sand dunes are also extremely spectacular and are a popular attraction among nature lovers.… 阅读更多内容

Human engineering. The 百龙电梯 (Bailong) Elevator in the 武陵源 (Wulingyuan) district of 湖南张家界国家森林公园 (Zhangjiajie National Park) in China can carry visitors up to 300 meters along the edge of a cliff. This elevator is Earth’s heaviest and highest outdoor elevator.… 阅读更多内容

Russia is the largest country on Earth. It’s two times larger than the USA and even larger than the surface area of Pluto! With over 80 provinces, including one former German province in an area of Арха́нгельская о́бласть (Arkhangelsk Oblast), this vast country reaches across 14 time zones and an amazing array of people and cultures. The Kremlin in Moscow is the largest medieval fortified complex on Earth. It also features the largest church bell and military cannon integrated within the Kremlin complex. The Metro in St. Petersburg is the deepest subway system on Earth; it's average depth… 阅读更多内容

Germany is well-known for its marvelous, middle-age castles. And not without a reason. In Germany, there are around 20.000 castles, which are at least 100 years old. Over the years some of them have been turned into museums, restaurants, and even hotels. Many of them are still for sale...… 阅读更多内容

You can’t get drunk in English pubs. Britain is famous for their pub culture. Pubs are the main hub of various local communities and they're a place to socialize and have a drink. But you are not allowed to get drunk there; it is forbidden by law.… 阅读更多内容

When a spaceship breaks the light barrier, time will become relative to the clocks on planets, space stations, and on the spaceship itself. As the speed of light is constant for all parties, it would seem as if time would be moving much slower on the ship. Hypothetically, as one gets closer to a singularity, time would appear to be traveling normally, but for observers on the outside, many years would have passed. It is said that the gravitational field of a singularity right next to the event horizon is so powerful that every hour spent around the event horizon would be equal to a thousand… 阅读更多内容

Time dilation. A well-known fact among physicists is that a spacer will age slower compared to someone who lives on a planet. Why? Because a person in space is less affected by gravity, which by extension means that the flow of time is also less affected. The stronger the gravitational field, the more of an effect it will have upon the fabric of time. This is the reason why singularities, also known as black holes, are seen as natural time machines; since being present near the event horizon of a singularity causes time to drastically slow down; at the center of a singularity time stops,… 阅读更多内容

Volume. Archimedes, one of the most famous of the ancient Greeks, is credited with various engineering feats. His "Eureka!" moment, in which he invented a method for calculating the volume of irregularly shaped objects by drowning them in water, is perhaps the most well-known of them.… 阅读更多内容

The first engineer. The first engineer known by name was the Egyptian pyramid builder Imhotep, 4700 years ago. Around 2700 B.C. he built the first pyramids in Egypt and thus gained an almost godlike status.… 阅读更多内容

There are more stars in the universe than than grains of sand on Earth's beaches. The universe extends far beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists estimate the universe contains approximately 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 stars, or one septillion. While no one can actually count every single grain of sand on Earth, good luck trying, the estimated total from researchers at the University of Hawaii, is somewhere around seven quintillion grains. Perhaps I'll upload more fun facts, if I feel like it.… 阅读更多内容

Sol, also known as "The Sun", or just "Sun". With a mass of around 330.000 times that of Earth Sol accounts for 99.86% of the mass in our solar system. Did you know that the Sun is made up of mostly hydrogen? 75% consist of hydrogen with the rest of its mass attributed to Helium, Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Silicon, Magnesium, Neon, Iron, and Sulfur. The Sun is large enough that it could be home to approximately 1.3 million Earths. If the Earths retained their spherical shape, then 960.000 would fit. Can you visualize that number of Earths?… 阅读更多内容

NASA's Space Suit. While the entire suit costs only $12 million, 70% of that cost is reserved for the backpack and control module alone. However, the suits that NASA uses were built in 1974. If these were priced by today's pricing, they would cost an estimated 150 million dollars, per unit.… 阅读更多内容

There is no atmosphere in space, which means that sound has no medium or way to travel to be heard.… 阅读更多内容

I'm a diagnosed sociopath, surprise, surprise.… 阅读更多内容