facts about technology
1- Rubber bands last longer if they are kept in a refrigerator. 2- An average sized teacup can hold around 1 million grains of sand. 3- Electric bug-zappers actually attract bugs.They only kill a small proportion of the bugs they attract, so you may be bitten by more bugs if you have one than if you don’t! 4- There is enough lead in a pencil to draw a line that is 56 kilometres (35 miles) long.You’d need a good pencil sharpener though! 5- Marek Turowski (UK) reached a speed of 148 kilometres (92 miles) per hour driving a motorized couch in May 2007. 6- British scientists found that a robotic nose is better at detecting smells if it is given a coating of artificial bogeys! 7- Scientists are working on a ‘cloak of invisibility’ that will hide objects by making light waves flow around them, like water flowing around a rock in a river. 8- There’s a reason why tomato ketchup won’t come out of the bottle and then falls out in a huge dollop – it’s called shea...
