Sociologists have discovered that couples who have sons face a significantly lower risk of divorce than couples who only have daughters

Roulette was invented by French mathematician Blaise Pascal The popular game of chance was a byproduct of his experiments with perpetual motion

Ralph Teetor the inventor of Cruise Control was blind He invented it in 1945 because his lawyer while driving the car would slow up and speed up The motion annoyed him so much that he created a speed control device

Lawrence Bragg an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer is the youngest Nobel Laureate He was joint winner (with his father Sir William Bragg) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915: For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-ray at the age of 25

New Element 115 has been included in the Periodic Table from August 2013 Scientists have created this very heavy atom with a very short life span Element 115 officially labeled ununpentium as dictated by international chemistry naming rules is neither a natural nor practical thing For now it s stuck with its clunky ununpentium moniker the two un s coming from the Latin unum for the number one and the pent coming from the Greek word for five

Mycologist Philip Ross uses mushrooms as a building material Beneath the surface of the ground fungi form a wide network of thin rootlike fibers called mycelium That part of the fungus isn t particularly tasty but Ross discovered that when dried it can be used to form a super-strong water- mold- and fire-resistant building material The dried mycelium can be grown and formed into just about any shape and it has a remarkable consistency that makes it stronger pound for pound than concrete