1) 220 million tons of old computers and other technological hardware are trashed in the United States each year
2) The Internet is the fastest-growing communications tool ever
3) Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for Science
4) A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat
5) Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921
6) No one has received more U.S. patents than Thomas Edison – 1,093 to be exact
7) The first laser was made in California in 1960
8) There have been 113 space shuttle flights since the program began in 1981