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A raisin in a glass of champane (or any soda water) will continuously bounce up and down from the bottom of the glass

Your brain uses less power than a mini flashlight, about 12 watts. Know more about this fact
The body can function without a brain. And anyone who has walked around the city on a Saturday night will know what I mean. (someone else said this)
Rice and other grains contain chemicals that can enhance brain function
Your brain is almost 80% water
Everyday, the human brain generates more electrical impulses than all the telephone wires in the world put together
Your brain weighs less than your skin

You have to be at least 58.5 inches tall to be an astronaut
Astronauts grow taller (height) in space
The Apollo astronauts were not given life insurance before their flights
Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot
Neil Armstrong almost died during a training exercise while controlling the landing module
Armstrong’s quote “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” was said 6 1/2 hours after landing. Armstrong claimed he said “a man” which was inaudible due to static
Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on the moon. He used his relief tube live on TV with 1/5 of the world watching
Buzz Aldrin took holy communion on the moon
Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was “Moon”
While in quarantine after the Apollo mission, Buzz Aldrin filled out a government expense account report and was reimbursed $33.31
In December 1972, U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan became the last person to set foot on the moon.
For Muslim astronauts, without special dispensation, they will have to pray 80 times in 24 hours. However, Malaysian religious bodies have said that they will only need to pray five times a day and that the times should follow the location of the spacecraft’s launch

The digits 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 are known as Arabic numerals but were originally defined by Indian mathematicians
The symbols for 1, 4 and 6 were accepted first. The symbols for 2, 7 and 9 were only accepted 100 years later

In the United States between 1975 – 1995, there were only four states without earthquakes: Florida, Iowa, North Dakota, Winconsin
Alaska is the most earthquake prone zone in the world
Earthquakes also occur on the moon (“moonquakes”)
The world’s deadlist earthquake was in central China in 1556, killing 830,000 people
On the Richter scale, 1.0 is equivalent to a construction site blast while 5.0 is equivalent to the Nagasaki atomic bomb. The Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004 stood at 9.3

An atom is made out of a nucleus and orbiting electrons. If the nucleus were a size of a marble, and the electron the width of a hair, the region the electrons orbits would be as far as 2 miles
The concept of atoms came from India

The Milky Way is currently devouring a smaller galaxy known as the Sagittarius dwarf elliptical galaxy
In turn, the larger neighbouring Andromeda galaxy will absorb the Milky Way in about 2 billion years

Early on, storms were named for the location they hit or a particular day they made landfall, i.e. the Labor Day Hurricane. In 1953, the Department of Defense started naming hurricanes by a numerically, i.e. Able, Baker, Charlie, etc. This lasted only 3 years upon which female names were used instead
A storm surge only officially becomes a hurricane when winds hit 119km/hr (74 mph)
In 1950, the first Hurricane name was Easy that hit the coast of Florida
Hurricanes lose about 50% of their intensity in the 12 hours after landfall
Hurricanes circulate counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere

Scientists postulate that there is another planet beyond pluto, known as Planet X
The search for planet X is done via the space telescope called SIRTF (Space Infrared Telescope Facility) that is kept below freezing temperatures
Ancient Sumerian texts write about a race of Anunnaki living on Nibiru (Planet X) and that Nibiru is on a 3600 year eliptical orbit, unlike the rest of the planets in our solar system

When you are born, your umbilicus is the best source of stem cells that can be used to generate every single cell in your body. If not harvested immediately, this source is lost forever