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Amazing Facts of Science..!
- Every year, over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
- A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs.
- It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to Earth.
- The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph, by Fred Rompelberg.
- Every year lightning kills 1000 people. Amazing Facts!
- 100 years ago – The first virus was found in both plants and animals.
- Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
- We can produce laser light a million times brighter than Sunshine.
- The Earth is 4.56 billion years old, the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
- Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
- A Dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
- Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air.
- Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime. Amazing Facts!
- There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
- The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
- A single rye plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground.
- The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
- It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
- The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
- The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life.
- There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
- The Virginia Opossum has a gestation period of only 12-13 days.
- To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
- 60-65 million years ago Dolphins and Humans shared a common ancestor.
- The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
- Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.
- The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.
- The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.
- An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
- The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
- The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
- Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.
- The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
- The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
- Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
- A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
- Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
- The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg).
- Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second – 86 million each day.
- The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years.
- An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts. Amazing Facts!
- Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
- The grey Whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
- Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
- Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967, the patient lived for 18 days.
- The seeds of an Indian Lotus tree remain viable for 300 to 400 years.
- If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be a small as a pea.
- A car traveling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
- Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmatian dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
- In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
- If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
- It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.
- On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
- When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
- There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
- More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
- When hydrogen burns in the air, water is formed.
- Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
- The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18 mph.
- By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
