Who Made It?

Fires can't burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space, but guns can shoot. Modern ammunition contains its own oxidizer, a chemical that will trigger the explosion of gunpowder, and thus the firing of a bullet, wherever you are in the universe. No atmospheric oxygen required.

No one can say that Whitney Houston wasn’t phenomenally talented. She sang back up for Chaka Khan, Lou Rawls, and Jermaine Jackson when she was just 19 years old! Houston was also a highly sought-after model. She was the first woman of color on the cover of Seventeen and Glamour magazines.

The decimal number system we use today seems like the obvious choice, given that we have ten fingers to count with. But in the olden days, people counted in dozens, not tens. Hence the word “hundred” – it derives from the old Norse “hundrath” and originally meant 120.