Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. See more

The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000 million miles. See more

You cannot sneeze with your eyes open. See more

The typical laboratory mouse runs 2.5 miles per night on its treadmill. See more

If you have a car remote and you step out of its range, point it to your head and it will work again! See more

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation. See more

Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire. See more

It is impossible for a solar eclipse to last for more than 7 minutes 58 seconds. See more

The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced. See more

Hot water weighs less than cold water for a given volume. See more

Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus. See more

Every single "all a's" domain name, from a.com to aaa..aaa.com (63 a's) has been registered! See more

You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206. See more

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. See more

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet. See more

The screwdriver was invented before the screw. See more