40 Random STEM Facts to Make Up for the Countless Hours You Disassociated in Elementary School

This one goes out to the ‘you won’t have a calculator in your pocket’ crowd
40 Random STEM Facts to Make Up for the Countless Hours You Disassociated in Elementary School

Einstein never failed math. The only academic trouble he ever had was when he took an entrance exam — in French.

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Nightmares

BLIND PEOPLE SUFFER FOUR TIMES THE NIGHTMARES THAT SIGHTED PEOPLE DO. NIGHTMARES ACCOUNT FOR 25% OF DREAMS FOR PEOPLE BORN BLIND VS. 6% FOR THOSE WITH

Bekoji

Bekoji is a small town in Ethiopia. It has around 17 OOO citizens. Runners from this town won over 30 world championships and 16 Olympic medals. For r
Facade Engineer This job requires you to rappel down the side of tall buildings and identify damaged parts of the building, So that repairs can be mad

An engineer designing WWII airplane wings quit to become the first supermodel.

One of the first supermodels was a mechanical engineer who designed airplane wings during WWII. CRACKED.COM Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker quit her engineering job after being passed over for a promotion and began writing copy for в movies, where she was encouraged to go into modeling.

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An engineer saw Jesus and abruptly quit.

An aeronautics engineer visited all 238 countries compiling a list of religions. S حت CRACKED COM David Barrett resigned abruptly after seeing a vi- sion of Jesus, and spent 40 years single-handedly com- piling the only complete list of Earth's 10,000 religions and 33,830 denominations of Christianity.

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Dolph Lundgren

CRACKEDcO R DOLPH LUNDGREN is a chemical engineer. Who says brains and brawn can't go together? In addition to his martial arts prowess, Lundgren got

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40 Random STEM Facts to Make Up for the Countless Hours You Disassociated in Elementary School
VELCRO WAS INSPIRED BY SEEDS. Swiss engineer George de Mestral created Velcro by replicating the microscopic hooks of the seeds that got stuck to his
A NASA ENGINEER INVENTED THE SUPER SOAKER IN HIS BATHROOM. Uper NERF Daker Lonnie Johnson was testing an idea for a water-based refrigeration system.
STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR? BettER OPEN THE HATCH! EXcEPT, NO. IT'S LOCKED FROM THE OUTSIDE The hatch is to let rescuers in so they can escort people out. A

Scary Naughty Dog

NAUGHTY DOG 1989 NALITY DO NAUGHTY DOG WARES Before they settled on a more sensible and legible logo, Naughty Dog created this nightmare hound that is half Poochie from The Simpsons, half Chester the Cheetah, and all drawn-with-a-computer-mouse.

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Venture Dunce is a wannabe venture capitalist who hopes to make big money in the tech industry, but is pretty clueless about what constitutes a good

IBM Through Time

IBM HAN B 1889 HR CRACKEDCO IBM was first known as the International Time Recording Company several decades before computers were to be invented, and we can't be too hard on a company that was in business during the first Grover Cleveland presidency; however I will say that it looks

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Speculative Science

The X-Files Chris Carter didn't think of the show as science fiction. Carter preferred the term speculative science, with the character of Scully helping ground the show. If it weren't for Scully, I think the show could be just kind of loopy, Carter said. CRACKED.COM

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Crikey, the Culmination of Science

The genus Crikey contains only one species, a snail named in honor of a late, dearly missed Australian conservationist: Crikey steveirwini. This is what science has been working toward all these years. CRACKED

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DISTRUST STORIES ABOUT MIRACLE BREAKTHROUGHS. & SHOWBIZ SCIENCE NEWS ROYAL OME POLITICS WEATHER JK WORLD Science News Home breakthrough cure Trel Canc

Nurse Chapel, rejoice

The Star Trek MEDICAL TRicorder is a diagnostic device used to obtain a patient's vitals. C ctil The SCANADU Scout, currently under evaluation by the

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