1. There are currently 44 active national emergencies in the U.S., with one going all the way back to 1979.
2. Approximately 430 quintillion joules of energy from the Sun hit the Earth every hour. That’s more than the total energy everyone on the planet uses in a year.
3. Rats are very impressive breeders, with one pair having the potential to produce 15,000 descendants in ONE YEAR.
4. The reason we capitalize the letter “I” is because writers in the 13th and 14th centuries thought the lowercase “i” looked too weak for what it represented.
5. During a total solar eclipse, a rainbow within its path turns RED. Shorter wavelengths of light, like blue and green, are more easily scattered at totality.
