Don Quixote: Best Selling Novel
Don Quixote is the best-selling novel of all time, with over 500 million copies sold. That’s the best-selling novel. But if we’re talking...
10 Shortest Players in NBA History
Traditionally, basketball is a game for tall people. From 1985 to 2006, the average height of players in the NBA was roughly 6’7”, and...
Math Joke Series
Back when the internet was young, the primary users were its builders, math and tech-oriented academics spread around the country. As a...
Googol and Googolplex
A googol is 10 to the 100th power (which is 1 followed by 100 zeros). A googol is larger than the number of elementary particles in the...
The Longest Sentences in Literature
Despite its occasional use in spoken monologue, the Very Long Literary Sentence properly exists in the mind (hence...
Codex Leicester
The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of famous scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci. The Codex is...
Albert Einstein, Israel President?
Albert Einstein was offered the role of Israel’s second President in 1952, but declined. Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein passed up...
What a Stretchable DNA!
There is enough DNA in an average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times. The human genome, the genetic code...
Earthquakes Can Turn Water to Gold
Gold could be deposited almost instantaneously in the Earth's crust during earthquakes, say Australian researchers.The researchers have...
Bees, Bomb Detectors?
Bees can be trained to detect bombs. Police and military personnel have been using dogs to sniff out explosives for decades. According to...
