Tests conducted by St. Lawrence University in New York found that there were more left-handed people with IQs over 140 than right-handed people. Famous left-handed intellectuals include Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin.b
When the Space shuttle made its glide towards Earth's surface took the orbit 5,000 miles, almost the distance between Tokyo and LA in 30 minutes. My random fact is from visiting the spaceship Endeavor last week while in LA.
The King James version of the Bible was completed around 1610/1611. William Shakespeare would have been age 46 when it was completed (he was born 4/26/1564).
In the King James Bible, Psalm 46, the 46th word from the beginning is "shake" and the 46th word from the end is "spear".
Post by captainmel on Jan 16, 2015 14:00:22 GMT -5
Playtex (the bra company) designed and manufactured the original moon landing mission space suits. NASA engineers made countless failed attempts to design a hard shell spacesuit but they all had too many failure points.
Playtex made the laytex suits for the astronauts and they were sewn buy the factory workers who spent most of their days sewing bras.
Venus is the only planet in our solar system with retrograde (counter-clockwise) rotation. Also, a day on Venus is longer than a Venus year. It takes 243 Earth days for Venus to complete a rotation, but only 225 Earth days to complete its orbit around the sun.