Jul 15, 2012

-Microwave ovens cook food by vibrating the water molecules enough to create friction/heat

-Spider web threads have the equivalent strength of steel and are stretchier than nylon

-Einstein wrote the first equations for lasers.

-Every culture has folklore of "little people (leprechauns, Lilliputians, etc)

-computers can not recognize images with hidden features (i.e. a cat hiding behind a tree. comp only sees tree)

-Queen Elizabeth painted her face white with blue veins on it to make herself appear transparent.

-There are 100 billion neurons in the human brain

-A pizza will cook on Venus in 9 seconds

-Sleep turns short term memories into long term.

-Dolphins sleep half of their brain at at time.

-Octopi arms can operate autonomously without a brain connection.