Some say mushrooms keep better in paper bags in the regular part of your refrigerator, not in plastic in the vegetable drawer.
Pencils can write in zero gravity.
Traveling via horse-drawn coach from London to Manchester (185 miles) in the 18th century required four or six draught animals that needed to be changed every six to 12 miles, depending on the condition of the roads.
Ancient Egyptian women used to see if they were pregnant by urinating in wheat and barley seeds. If the barley grew, it would be a boy; if wheat grew, a girl. Researchers in 1963 were surprised to learn that seed growth happened 70% of the time. They linked this to the higher level of estrogen in urine.
By 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capability of the entire human race.
This article appears in September 21 • 2007.