Table tennis balls travel at speeds up to 70 miles per hour during professional matches.

The first hard drive, released in 1956, weighed over a ton and stored only 5 megabytes.

Iceland runs almost entirely on geothermal and hydroelectric energy — it is one of the greenest countries on Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope can detect heat signatures equivalent to a bumblebee at the distance of the Moon.

More than 90% of the world's currency exists only digitally — not as physical cash.

The lithium-ion battery, now powering billions of devices, was developed in the 1970s–80s by researchers including John Goodenough.

Formula 1 cars can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in about 2.6 seconds and brake back to 0 in 1.2 seconds.

Satellites can read license plates from orbit under ideal conditions.

The first product to have a barcode scanned at retail was a pack of Wrigley's chewing gum in 1974.