A newly established queen bee will mate with one or more "drones." Most likely, this one mating event will allow her to lay eggs for the rest of her life. A queen bee may lay up to 2,000 eggs a day and up to 1,000,000 in her lifetime.

The Aeolipile, a simple steam turbine is first described by Hero of Alexandria in the 1st century AD, and many historians give him credit for the invention.

The first seismograph was invented in 132 A.D. by the Chinese astronomer and mathematician Chang Heng. It consisted of a ceramic urn with eight dragons attached to its sides. Each dragon held a small bronze ball in its mouth. Whenever there was even a slight earth tremor, a mechanism inside the seismograph would open the mouth of one dragon, and the bronze ball would fall into the open mouth of one of eight toads sitting below. Imperial watchman could tell which direction the earthquake came from by seeing which dragon's mouth was empty.

A typical hummingbird can flap its wings up to 80 times per second.

Oganesson is a transactinide chemical element, first synthesized in 2002 by a joint team of Russian and American scientists. Formerly called ununoctium, it has an atomic number of 118. It was formerly thought to be a gas under normal conditions but is now predicted to be a solid due to relativistic effects.

Magnetars (a type of neutron star) are the bizarre super-dense remnants of supernova explosions. They are the strongest magnets known in the universe -- hundreds of millions of times more powerful than the magnetic field surrounding Earth.

Thomas Edison was an inventor who accumulated 2,332 patents worldwide for his inventions. 1,093 of Edison's patents were in the United States, but other patents were approved in countries around the globe.

The troposphere is the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. It starts at the Earth's surface and extends 8 to 14.5 kilometers high (5 to 9 miles). Most types of clouds are found in the troposphere, and almost all weather occurs within this layer.

You are more bacteria than you are you! The average human body is made up of 90% bacteria and only 10% human cells. Because of their small size, however, microorganisms make up only about 1 to 3 percent of the body's mass. (In a 200-pound adult, that's 2 to 6 pounds of bacteria.)

The average cumulus cloud contains about 500,000,000 grams of water which equals approximately 1.1 million pounds. That nice, white fluffy cloud floating over your head weighs as much as 100 elephants!