The world generates about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day.

Satellites can read license plates from orbit under ideal conditions.

The internet was originally called ARPANET and was designed by the US military to survive a nuclear attack.

The first computer mouse was made of wood.

The transistor revolutionized modern electronics.

Nuclear reactors generate electricity by using the heat from controlled fission chain reactions to boil water and spin turbines.

The Shanghai Maglev train reaches extremely high speeds.

The first webcam was invented to check if a coffee pot in a Cambridge lab was full without walking downstairs.

NASA's Apollo guidance computer had less processing power than a modern USB charger.