Nikola Tesla was born during a particularly violent lightning storm. Reading this as a bad omen, the midwife asserted that this meant Tesla would be a “child of darkness.” Tesla’s mom, probably affronted by this woman’s assertion, immediately replied: “No. He will be a child of light.”

Vantablack is the blackest known substance in existence. Light does not reflect off it, it gets trapped and eventually turns to heat.

Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are plants.

Most of the non-cgi images we see of the Milky Way are of another galaxy called Messier 74. We cannot take a picture of the entire Milky Way from the outside as it is 100,000 lights years across and we are on the inside.

The smell of freshly cut grass is actually the smell of each blade of grass trying to heal itself after being cut.