Assorted Facts 18
Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.
The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.
Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists' favorite song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," by the Beatles.
Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.
Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.
The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives, referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives. This is due to the fact that the original Winchester drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of course, a Winchester firearm.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.weird science facts
Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb.
According to security equipment specialists, security systems that utilize motion detectors won't function properly if walls and floors are too hot. When an infrared beam is used in a motion detector, it will pick up a person's body temperature of 98.6 degrees compared to the cooler walls and floor. If the room is too hot, the motion detector won't register a change in the radiated heat of that person's body when it enters the room and breaks the infrared beam. Your home's safety might be compromised if you turn your air conditioning off or set the thermostat too high while on summer vacation.
Western Electric successfully brought sound to motion pictures and introduced systems of mobile communications which culminated in the cellular telephone.
On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.
The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them. When you light the candle, you are also lighting the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and, in just a split second (or two or three), relights the wick.
Twenty percent of Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon forest.
The noble gas Xenon lasers can cut through materials that are so tough even diamond tipped blades will not cut.
Gold and Copper are the only two non-white metals.
The burning sensation we get from chilli peppers is because of a chemical called Capsaicin.
The lighter was invented before the match (in 1816 by J.W. Dobereiner).
Each time lightning strikes, some Ozone gas is produced, thus strengthening the Ozone Layer in the Earth's atmosphere.
There's enough gold in the Earth's crust to cover the entire land surface knee-deep.
An average adult body contains around 250g (1/2lb) of salt.
The metal with the highest melting point is tungsten, at 3410 degrees Celcius
If you eat a banana before you go to bed, you have bad dreams
The Afghan capital Kabul has a cyber cafe.
Accordingly to Google Zeitgeist the top search in India June 2007 is the phrase reliance data card.
Google offers its employees free lunch.
BBC has 43 different translations of its website.
Google's employees get free haircuts.
Google receives more than 1000 resumes a day.
About 47 million laptops where shipped worldwide 2006.
Over 2.7 billion searches are made on Google search engine each month.
Google can be queried in 36 languages (2007).
Google uses over 10,000 networked computers to crawl the web.
Google has 2007 surpassed Microsoft as the world's most-visited site.
Google have won 2007 most powerful brand by a British research company.
Google staff are known as Googlers.
The founders of Google didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface, thats one of the main reason why the home page is so bare.
The name "Google" comes from a spelling mistake, the founders intendent to write "Googol".
Google launched their search site in 1998.
The Google function "I feel lucky" is nearly never used, well compared to the high number of users.
Wikipedia has a page devoted to toilet roll holders. ?
Atari sold 400000 VCS consoles in 1979.
The Atari 2600 only has 128 bytes of RAM.
In Sweden the @ is called "snabel-a" wich means a "trunk with an a".
The floppy disk was patents in 1946 by Alan Shugart.
If you type in failure in google, and select "I'm feeling lucky", you will be redirected to the White House web page.
Yahoo stands for Yet Another 'Hierarchical Organizational Oracle'.
PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page.
The oldest surviving computer in the world is called CSIRAC and is located in Melbourne.
The word maps is often in the top 10 search words submitted to search engines.
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13.
Google receives about 200 million search queries each day. More than half of which come from outside the United States. During the heviest traffic more than 2,000 search queries are answered each second.
More than 80% of home pages on the Web are in English. German has only 4.5% and Japanese 3.1%.
The percentage of email messages in English is estimates to vary between 60% and 85%.
Sweden has the most affordable broadband internet access in Europe.
The highest amount of money paid for a domain name is for business.com, $7.5 million.
The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutters on backwards.
Internet was designed to survive thermonuclear assault".
Every single possible 3 character.com domain has been registered.
Internet advertising is the fastest growing advertising medium.
All domain names in Slovakia are free.
88% of websites have no discernible traffic.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
Each day an average American depends on about 250 computers.
Microsoft is the biggest developer of Mac software outside Apple.
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes.
The most popular non-HTML format files return from Google is PDF-format.
Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste is the owner of over 200,000 domain names.
The top searchwords in Google where September 19, 2005 "hurricane rita".