There had been four years of drought in Iran by the beginning of 1972, but for a week in February, the country experienced what has come to be known as ...
Lightning is one of nature’s most amazing and potentially deadly events. Most lightning lasts for one to two seconds and travels a few miles, but two record-breaking lightning bolts shattered ...
When Hurricane Frances moved toward the Florida coast in 2004, Walmart employed one of its latest pieces of shopping tendency gadgetry, a data program it called “predictive technology.” Walmart wanted ...
One of the greatest temperature drop in 24 hours in the United States took place in Browning, Montana, on January 23, 1916. The temperature started at 44 °F (6.7 °C) ...
When someone speaks of space, the area above our heads where the stars and planets sit, where are they talking about? Where exactly does space begin after someone leaves the ...
You’ve probably heard this term on weather reports when a meteorologist talks about the jet stream, but what is it exactly? The jet stream, which is considered a “river” of ...
It’s a smell that anyone with a working olfactory system will immediately recognize, the scent of fresh rain. What happens after a new rainstorm to make the air smell so ...
In this week’s facts edition: Roy Orbison’s Iconic Sunglasses, Huge Abandoned Busts of Presidents, The Greatest Temperature Change in the U.S., A Huge Fraud, and Why They’re Called Milk Duds. ...
The weekly collection of random and fun facts. In this week’s edition: Dinner Literally in the Sky, A Not So High Temperature, A Wine Bottle’s Backside, The Giant Big Bird, ...
Another rousing edition of The Completely Useless Facts of the Week. This week’s issue is rather electrifying. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day, and a lightning ...
The Great Lakes previously underwent the greatest freeze in over thirty-five years in 2014 when 90% of the lakes froze over. People from around the region rediscovered areas that haven’t ...
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