NASA mapped the Earth at night and discovered that half of an uninhabited part of Australia is on fire, producing more light than the capital cities.
A cat’s ability to see well at night is due to its ” tapetum lucidum “, a structure that reflects visible light back through the cat’s retina. It’s also what causes the eyes’ weird ‘glowing’ effect in the dark.
In 1983, a 61-year-old farmer won a 544 mile endurance race because he ran throughout the night while the younger ‘professional’ athletes slept.
The whole of Liechtenstein can be rented for US$70,000 a night, for a minimum of two nights. It sleeps 900.
Night vision goggles are green because the human eye can differentiate more shades of green than any other color.
The night before his execution, a man in Georgia escaped from prison and, later that night, was beaten to death in a bar fight.