Archaeological finds in China revealed silk use 8,500 years ago, confirming textile technologies.
Oxygen makes up 46.6% of the Earth’s crust by mass, being the primary element in silicates.
The largest cruise ship in the world, Icon of the Seas, launched in 2024. It’s 365 meters long and holds 7,600 passengers. It even has a water park and an ice rink onboard!
A small ‘sand hawk’ in the Arabian Desert dives into the sand. Its wings help it glide beneath the dunes.
Climate data indicates a 10% rainfall decrease in the Mediterranean since 1900.
During the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, astronauts left mirrors on the Moon. Scientists still use them to measure the distance to the Moon with centimeter precision by sending laser beams from Earth. It...
The largest solar power plant in the world is in India, with a capacity of 2.25 GW. It spans 50 km² and powers 1.5 million homes. The panels are so vast they’re visible from space!
In India, the Karni Mata Temple houses thousands of rats, considered sacred. Visitors walk barefoot and even eat food touched by the rats, believing it brings luck. Accidentally stepping on a rat i...
The Voyager spacecraft carries a golden record with Earth’s voices! It was launched in 1977 to tell other civilizations about humanity.
In South Africa, ‘sand flowers’ bloom after rain. These plants survive in the desert by storing water.
In the 1930s, Australia built a 5,600 km fence to stop rabbits. Called the “Rabbit-Proof Fence,” it was meant to protect crops from rabbit invasions, but they still got around it! The fence sti...
Sea urchins regulate coral reef growth by eating algae, as confirmed by ecological studies.
The mysterious ‘singing’ of sands in the Gobi Desert sounds like a low hum. It’s caused by sand grains moving and creating resonance.
Greenland’s glaciers lose 280 billion tons of ice annually, measured by the GRACE satellites.
In Sweden, there’s an ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi village that gets rebuilt every year. It’s entirely made of ice and snow, including beds and the bar, with temperatures inside never rising above...
The chemical element gold forms from neutron collisions in stars before their supernova explosions.
Climate data indicates a 30% increase in ocean acidity since the start of the industrial era.
The world’s smallest computer, created in 2018, is smaller than a grain of rice. Developed at the University of Michigan, it’s used in medicine, like monitoring cancer cells. Imagine: a device ...
The Mariana Trench reaches a depth of 10,984 meters, making it the deepest point in the world’s oceans.
The oldest map in the world, the Babylonian Map of the World, was created 2,600 years ago. Carved on a clay tablet, it shows the world as a flat disk with Babylon at the center. It’s like peering...
The Shilin Stone Forest in China’s Yunnan Province amazes with its shapes! Geologists found this is due to limestone erosion creating such shapes.