"Mayday" is an emergency call derived from the French "m'aidez," meaning "help me."
The "Taos Hum" is a strange low-frequency noise people hear in New Mexico.
Lightning strikes Earth frequenty. Public figures often use a round number of about 100 strikes per second, or more than 8 million per day. The CDC uses a similar estimate: about 6,000 strikes worldwide every minute. Satellite records put the global average at about 44 to 60 flashes per second. That works out to roughly 3.8 to 5 million flashes per day, or about 1.4 to 1.9 billion flashes per year.
A lightning bolt is ~5x hotter than the surface of the sun.
A cloud-to-ground lightning bolt looks huge in photos, but the actual current-carrying channel is only about 1 to 2 inches wide.
On average, each commercial jet is struck by lightning once per year.
The universe may have more rogue planets than stars.
"Kerr" Black Holes spin near the speed of light.
Only 5% of the universe is made of visible matter.
The James Webb telescope sees over 13 billion years into the past.
The Sun will continue burning for another 5 billion years.
Light from the Andromeda Galaxy takes about 2.5 million years to reach Earth.
The blinking light at the top of the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles has been sending out the word "Hollywood" in Morse Code since 1956.
A "moment" is actually a medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds. You can have 40 moments in an hour.