Fact about ENIAC

The first successful electronic

 digital computer, the ENIAC,

 was a giant machine that 

weighed 27 tonnes and took 

up a room 30 feet wide wide by

 50 feet long!! It had 17,468

 vacuum tubes 70,000 resistors

 and 6000 manual switches!!

Did you know?

One of the smallest dinosaurs 

that lived during the Jurassic

 was hardly larger

 than a pet cat!!!!!! 

Antarctica is the only continent
 where butterflies have
 not been found!!!!!!!!

Chameleons can whip their

 long tongues out faster than

 our eyes can follow, 

moving 26 times the length 

of their own body in a second!!!

Words and Wordsmiths

24 of the natural satellites 

orbiting Uranus have

 been named after 

characters from 

Shakespeare's plays!!!!  

In 2004 French author Michel Thaler published

 a 233 page novel which has no verbs!!!

Dr. Seuss wrote the

 well-known children's book

 'Green Eggs and Ham' using

 only 50 different words!!!

Strange but true!!!!!!!!!!!!

The 'Gates of Paradise'

 is a novel consisting

 of 40,000 words written

 in two sentences!!!!!!!!!!

Solar flares are disrupting the Earth's magnetosphere

The Sun reaches its solar maximum this year - the period of greatest activity in its 11-year solar cycle. Because of the unusually low level of activity in recent years, this has caused a sudden build up of energy now, with large "solar storms" hitting Earth's magnetosphere. These are strong enough to disrupt electronic systems on the ground. Satellites, air travel, car navigations, the banking system, hospital equipment, computers and many other machines are affected during this period.