Roughly 80% of people will experience back pain at some point in their lives.

The average person spends about two weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights.

Your brain can store the equivalent of millions of gigabytes of information.

In the 1800s, 'computer' was a job title — humans who performed calculations.

Sound travels about four times faster in water than in air.

Edgar Allan Poe died in mysterious circumstances never fully explained.

The thalamus acts as the brain's relay station, routing sensory information to the appropriate cortical areas.

QWERTY keyboard layout was designed in 1873 partly to separate commonly used letter pairs and reduce mechanical jamming.

In 1999, several countries experienced a computer scare known as the Y2K problem.