Did you know that if you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would reach the moon? Or how about this: there are more atoms in a single glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth! Physics never fails to blow my mind! What's your favorite mind-bending fact?
We’ve known that nothing goes faster than the speed of light -- roughly 300,000 km every second. But this is only true in a vacuum, or near-vacuum like space. Under the right circumstances, your neighbour’s tortoise can out-pace light. It all depends on the medium.