🔬 SCIENCE (25 Facts)
Bananas Are Radioactive – They contain potassium-40, a naturally occurring isotope.
Octopuses Have Three Hearts – Two pump blood to the gills, one to the body.
Water Can Boil and Freeze at the Same Time – It's called the triple point.
The Human Body Glows – Bioluminescence is real, but it's 1,000 times weaker than the eye can see.
Sunsets on Mars Are Blue – Dust particles scatter sunlight differently than on Earth.
Ants Don’t Sleep – They rest in cycles but don’t experience sleep like humans.
DNA Could Stretch to Pluto and Back – One person’s DNA could span 10 billion miles if uncoiled.
You Can Fit All the Planets Between Earth and the Moon – With room to spare!
Sharks Are Older Than Trees – Sharks evolved 400 million years ago; trees, only 350 million.
The Eiffel Tower Grows in Summer – Metal expands, making it up to 6 inches taller.
Your Stomach Lining Renews Every Few Days – To avoid digesting itself.
There's a Planet Made of Diamonds – 55 Cancri e may be a giant diamond.
Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold – It’s called the Mpemba effect.
You’re Taller in the Morning – Discs in your spine decompress overnight.
Lightning Strikes the Earth 100 Times per Second – That’s over 8 million times a day!
Blood is Blue in Veins? – False! It’s always red; it just looks blue through skin.
Cockroaches Can Live Without Their Head – For about a week.
We Share 60% of Our DNA with Bananas – Evolution connects all life.
A Day on Venus Is Longer Than Its Year – It rotates very slowly.
Atoms Are 99.9999999% Empty Space – Yet make up everything!
Jellyfish Are Immortal (Kind of) – Turritopsis dohrnii can revert to its juvenile form.
Humans Emit Light – Every human emits a tiny amount of visible light.
A Teaspoon of a Neutron Star Weighs 6 Billion Tons – Dense is an understatement!
Sloths Can Hold Their Breath Longer Than Dolphins – Up to 40 minutes.
Sound Travels 15x Faster Through Steel Than Air – Materials change everything.
🛰️ NASA & SPACE (25 Facts)
NASA's Budget Is Less Than You Think – Under 0.5% of the US federal budget.
Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System – Launched in 1977, it’s still sending data.
Moon Dust Smells Like Gunpowder – Apollo astronauts described it this way.
Saturn Would Float in Water – It's less dense than H₂O.
NASA Uses Earthworms to Study Soil in Space – Helps understand plant growth in zero-G.
Spacesuits Cost About $12 Million Each – And they’re custom-built.
Mars Has the Tallest Volcano in the Solar System – Olympus Mons is 3x taller than Everest.
NASA Invented Memory Foam – For aircraft cushions, now used in mattresses.
The Moon Is Moving Away from Earth – About 3.8 cm per year.
You Can’t Cry in Space – Tears don’t fall, they just ball up.
There’s a Giant Water Cloud in Space – Contains 140 trillion times all Earth’s water.
The Sun Makes Up 99.8% of the Solar System’s Mass – Jupiter has most of the rest.
NASA Accidentally Erased the Moon Landing Tapes – They were reused in the 1980s.
Mars Has Seasons Like Earth – Due to its tilted axis.
Earth Is the Only Planet Not Named After a God – All others are named from mythology.
NASA’s First Logo Was Called the “Meatball” – Still iconic today.
The Hubble Telescope Travels 5 Miles Per Second – Orbiting Earth every 97 minutes.
Astronauts Can Grow Up to 2 Inches Taller in Space – Less gravity compressing their spine.
NASA’s Deep Space Network Listens 24/7 – Constant contact with distant probes.
Space Smells Like Seared Steak – Astronauts report a burnt-metal aroma.
There Are More Stars in the Universe Than Grains of Sand on Earth – Trillions of galaxies.
Apollo 11 Left a Mirror on the Moon – Still used to measure its distance.
NASA Built a Flying Saucer – For Mars landings (Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator).
A Day on Jupiter Lasts Only 10 Hours – Fastest spinning planet.
Pluto Has a Heart-Shaped Glacier – Discovered by New Horizons.
💻 TECHNOLOGY (25 Facts)
The First Email Was Sent in 1971 – By Ray Tomlinson, to himself.
Over 90% of the World’s Data Was Created in the Last 2 Years – Data explosion is real.
1 in 5 Marriages Start Online – Technology is reshaping relationships.
Google Was Originally Called Backrub – It analyzed web backlinks.
There Are Over 3.5 Billion Google Searches Daily – That’s 40,000+ per second.
The First Computer Bug Was a Real Moth – Trapped in Harvard’s Mark II computer.
Bitcoin’s Creator Is Still Unknown – “Satoshi Nakamoto” remains a mystery.
The First Website Is Still Online – info.cern.ch
IBM's Watson Once Beat Human Jeopardy Champions – AI milestone.
Wi-Fi Was Invented by Accident – During experiments with black holes.
The Average Smartphone Has More Power Than Apollo 11 Computers – By millions of times.
CAPTCHA Helps Digitize Books – It uses human input to decode old texts.
Amazon Was Almost Called “Cadabra” – But people misheard it as “cadaver.”
There Are More Mobile Devices Than People on Earth – Over 15 billion active devices.
The First 1GB Drive Cost $40,000 – Now, you get 1TB for under $50.
Over 300 Hours of Video Are Uploaded to YouTube Every Minute – Massive content flow.
Facebook Is Blue Because Mark Zuckerberg Is Red-Green Colorblind – Blue stands out best.
You Blink Less When Using a Screen – Leading to dry eyes.
The First Selfie Was Taken in 1839 – By a man named Robert Cornelius.
3D Printing Can Build Houses Now – And in under 24 hours.
AI Can Predict Diseases Years in Advance – With trained diagnostic models.
The Internet Weighs as Much as a Strawberry – Energy equivalent estimate.
The QWERTY Keyboard Was Designed to Slow Typing – To prevent typewriter jams.
Passwords Were Invented in 1960 – MIT’s CTSS system was first to use them.
Drones Were First Used in 1849 – By Austria, to bomb Venice.
💰 ACCOUNTING & FINANCE (25 Facts)
Double-Entry Bookkeeping Was Invented in the 1400s – By Luca Pacioli, a friend of Da Vinci.
The Word “Salary” Comes from Salt – Roman soldiers were paid in salt (salarium).
Credit Cards Were First Used in the 1950s – Diners Club was the first.
The NYSE Began Under a Buttonwood Tree – Traders met there in 1792.
China Invented Paper Money in the 7th Century – Way ahead of the West.
The IRS Receives Over 150 Million Tax Returns Annually – Just in the U.S.
Warren Buffett Bought His First Stock at Age 11 – And regretted starting late!
Compound Interest Was Called the 8th Wonder by Einstein – It’s that powerful.
Enron’s Collapse Led to Major Accounting Reforms – Like Sarbanes-Oxley.
Cryptocurrency Is Decentralized Finance – No middlemen, only code.
Tesla Made More from Bitcoin Than Cars in 2021 – For a short time.
A “Bull” Market Charges Ahead; a “Bear” Market Swipes Down – That’s how they got their names.
The Largest Denomination Ever Printed Was 100 Trillion – By Zimbabwe.
Black Monday (1987) Dropped Markets 22% in One Day – The biggest one-day crash.
Bitcoin Has a Hard Limit of 21 Million Coins – Can’t be inflated like fiat.
The U.S. Once Issued 2-Cent Coins – Short-lived but real.
The “Big Four” Accounting Firms Audit Most of the World’s Fortune 500 – Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG.
Most Banknotes Are Made of Cotton-Linen Blends – Not paper.
In Japan, Accountants Can Be Celebrities – Some are TV personalities.
The First Stock Exchange Was in Amsterdam (1602) – Dutch East India Company shares.
Auditors Are Watchdogs, Not Bloodhounds – They rely on evidence, not suspicion.
The Great Depression Reshaped Global Finance – Including central banks and regulations.
Gold Remains a “Safe Haven” Asset – In times of uncertainty.
The Term “Budget” Comes from a French Word for Purse – Bougette.
Your Credit Score Is Affected by Your Credit Utilization – Keep it under 30% ideally.
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