People are more likely to return a lost wallet if it contains a photo of a baby.

An average-sized cumulus cloud contains enough water for about 500 bathtubs.

Abstract art didn't begin with Picasso — Wassily Kandinsky is generally credited as the first to paint purely abstract works around 1910.

COINTELPRO was an FBI program aimed at monitoring and disrupting political organizations.

OLED screens emit light from individual pixels, unlike LCDs which use a backlight — enabling deeper blacks.

The world's first programmable computer, the Colossus, was built secretly in Britain during World War II to decode Nazi messages.

CRISPR technology allows targeted gene editing.

The jet engine made high-speed air travel possible.

The Zeigarnik effect explains why unfinished tasks are often remembered better.