Resident Daredevil Scientist, Greg Foot checks out Archimedes’ plan for a Death Ray in 214BC! Bold experimentalist Fran Scott investigates déjà vu and finds out our brains have memory storage of 2.5 million gigabytes while Mr Curious, Dom Byrne, separates the flaming facts from the fiction of dragons and also lights up a massive fire tornado! Eyepopping animation and exploding experiments unravel the world’s greatest mysteries and find the coolest facts in the universe.
Dom Byrne, Factomania’s Mr Curious travels back to Ancient Egypt to crack hieroglyphic code and also tries to fire up a poo powered go-kart! Daredevil scientist Greg Foot learns why you weigh less at the top of a mountain while bold experimentalist Fran Scott finds out how 157 people have fallen from planes without parachutes since 1900 and survived! Risky experiments and awesome graphics are all in the mix as the team serve up the most amazing facts known to man!
Fran Scott, the ‘bold experimentalist’, muses on time and finds out how Egyptians counted to 12! ‘Mr Curious’, Dom Byrne, slips into spandex to find what it takes to be a hero and whether moles, cockroaches or alien bacteria will inherit Earth post-nuclear fallout while Greg finds an unsung science pioneer who discovered how to weigh a planet and creates one of the biggest milk powder explosions ever seen on TV.
Daredevil scientist Greg Foot makes his own homemade rocket and looks at a space hotel which lets guests see 16 sunsets and sunrises in 24 hours! Bold experimentalist Fran Scott finds out that the biggest living thing on earth is not quite what you’d think while Mr Curious Dom Byrne learns that the over 5 billion gigabytes of material on the web would weigh the same as one fat strawberry!
Daredevil scientist Greg Foot straps a jet engine onto his go-kart for the ride of his life and gets in a spin learning how to survive a tornado. Mr Curious, Dom Byrne smashes Viking myths when he finds out they had their own parliament, didn’t wear horned helmets and followed a strict grooming routine… whilst bold experimentalist Fran Scott finds out you resuscitate dogs, cats and humans to the beat of Bee Gees disco hit ‘Stayin’ Alive’!
Mix bold experimentalist Fran Scott with a few anvils and a little gunpowder and you get a big bang! Mr Curious Dom Byrne finds out that Columbus may have been beaten by almost 500 years to America by Viking hero Leif Erikson while daredevil scientist Greg Foot looks to the star Gliese 581 for extra-terrestrial life. It’s only 20 light-years away! Science and history are sliced and diced as the team hunt for the most jaw-dropping facts using inventive animation and stunning experiments.
In this week’s Factomania, bold experimentalist Fran Scott, daredevil scientist Greg Foot and Mr Curious, Dom Byrne are armed with exploding experiments and eye-popping animation to unravel the world’s greatest mysteries and reveal the coolest facts in the universe. Did you know the vending machine was invented in the 1st Century AD? Or how about that 10,000 objects are spinning through space right now that could smash into Earth? Or even that you can lift a car with a vacuum cleaner?
Mr Curious AKA Dom Byrne drops to the centre of the Earth to find 1.6 quadrillion tons of gold! Bold experimentalist Fran Scott investigates a Scottish island that had to be quarantined for 48 years after germ warfare testing while daredevil scientist Greg Foot finds the answer to our fuel crisis on the moon and creates a Marty McFly style hoverboard! Risky experiments and awesome graphics are all in the mix as the team serve up the most amazing facts known to man!
Daredevil scientist Greg Foot finds the largest mountain range on the planet, at the bottom of the ocean! Bold experimentalist Fran Scott explores the Hindenburg disaster with an exploding airship and learns adults carry 100 trillion microbes of bacteria from 1000 different species while Dom Byrne AKA Mr Curious finds out which German spy was an inspiration for Bond, James Bond.
Bold experimentalist Fran Scott learns that mineral-packed whale poo is saving the Earth! Daredevil scientist Greg Foot takes the team on an amazing salad shootout and drops into a volcano to learn they explode with 24 megatons of thermal energy and Mr Curious Dom Byrne finds Roman gladiators had around a 1 in 10 chance of survival plus a thumbs up from the emperor actually meant they were for the chop.