Who Made It?

Benjamin Franklin once said that, "I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country! The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.”

Hundreds of years ago, Robert Hooke published a book called Micrographia that included hand-drawn images of samples observed under a microscope! Hooke, who we mentioned in a previous fact, is often credited as the discoverer of cells, after studying cork under the microscope.

Dividing by zero is not only impossible but also dangerous! In 1997, when a crewman aboard the USS Yorktown mistakenly entered a zero into the ship’s computer, it tried to divide by null, incapacitating the mighty vessel and leaving it stranded for several hours.