A hurricane that hit Puerto Rico in 1928 dropped 30 inches of rain over the island; the deluge was estimated to weigh 2,800,000,000 tons.

From bridges to rebar, rust is everywhere. According to a recent study, the annual cost of metallic corrosion in the U.S. is approximately $300 billion. The report, by the Specialty Steel Industry of North America, ...Read More

The area of Greater Tokyo -- meaning the city proper, its port, Yokohama, and the suburban prefectures of Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa -- contains less than 4 percent of Japan’s land area but fully one-fourth of its 123-...Read More

Fingernail polish often contains four or five chemicals the Environmental Protection Agency calls potentially harmful. If a person bought fingernail polish in a 55-gallon drum, the empty drum could not be legally thrown ...Read More

From her inception, Wonder Woman was not out to just stop criminals, but to reform them. On a small island off Paradise Island was Transformation Island, a rehabilitation complex created by the Amazons to house and reform ...Read More

Yes, although he still found himself in danger. By 1970, the war themes of the original G.I. Joe toys were eliminated due to the growing controversy over war toys in the wake of the Vietnam War. Now, G.I. Joe was the ...Read More