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“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." – Henry Ford”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“If you don't reward failure, people will hang on to a doomed idea for fear of the consequences" – Astro Teller”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." – Albert Einstein”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“One inch of rain is equal to 10 inches of snow”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“The average woman will kiss 15 men, and be heartbroken twice before meeting "the one”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“The world's oceans are absorbing the equivalent heat of 12 Hiroshima bombs per second”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“Amazon.com makes about £41m in sales every day. It could lose £1bn in sales per year over a 1 second web page delay”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“The giraffe has no vocal cords and communicates by vibrating the air around its neck”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“But still try, for who knows what is possible" – Michael Faraday”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." – Nicolaus Copernicus”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“It's estimated that 240,000 new homes will have to be built every year in the UK for the next 20 years to satisfy the need for housing”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“Alabama was the first state in the United States to officially recognize Christmas, in 1836. Oklahoma was the last, in 1907”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“1 million seconds ago was... 12 days ago. 1 billion seconds ago was... 31 years ago”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level." – Brian Greene”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“Google was named after "googol" (1 with 100 zeros) was mistyped”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“The average pencil could write 45,000 words or a 35-mile long line”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“There are 800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to arrange a deck of cards”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“It is most likely to be raining at 7am and least likely at 3am”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“Ethyl Formate, the chemical that gives raspberries their flavour, has been found emanating from dust clouds in space”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“Perfect way to flip a pancake: L = 4×H /π– D / 2 (L = hand distance from edge of the pancake / H = height of flip / D = diameter of pancake)”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“If you shuffle a pack of cards properly, chances are that exact order has never been seen before in the whole history of the universe”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“50% of web users abandon a page that doesn't load in ten seconds. 3 out of 5 won't return to that site”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“Dry”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“223 amazing science facts, tidbits and quotes   223 is the number of lunar months in approximately 18 solar years, used by ancient astronomers to predict eclipses”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“5.7 million people die worldwide each year because of smoking”
― Tasnim Essack, 147 Amazing Health Facts

“The storage capacity of a human brain exceeds 4 terabytes - you could fit about 1 million songs on a 4TB hard drive!”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new" – Albert Einstein”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“Alone we can't do much. Together we can change the world." – Bill Austin”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“There are more living organisms in a teaspoonful of soil than there are people alive on Earth”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard”
― Tasnim Essack, 223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes