World's top sicence facts
Top 20 Amazing Science Facts
1. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body - laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times
2. At over 2000 kilometers long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth
3. The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years
4. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons
5. A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs
6. Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide
7. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred Rompelberg
8. We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine
9. 65% of those with autism are left handed
10. The combined length of the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles
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20 Science Facts and Their Profound Reflections
1. The only fresh foods that astronauts are allowed to take into space are pecan nuts.
2. There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long;
3. The daily heat output of the average man would boil 30 litres of freezing water.
4. By 70 years old an average person will have shed 105 pounds of skin.
5. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown so keep smiling it saves energy.
6. Canned food was invented for the British Navy in 1813, but the first can opener wasn’t invented until 1870.
7. Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, is enough to kill the average human.
8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
9. The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
10. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
11. All the planets in the solar system spin anticlockwise except Venus, which spins the other way.
12. To make one kilo of honey, bees have to visit four million flowers, traveling a distance equal to four times around the Earth.
13. Approximately two thirds of a person’s bodyweight is water.
14. If all your DNA strands were stretched out they would reach the moon 6000 times.
15. Telephone inventor Alexandra Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
16. If a cockroach were human sized it could run a mile in 20 seconds.
17. Skydivers accelerate to terminal velocity of 120 mph.
18. The first electronic digital computer weighed 30 tons.
19. Concorde holds two world speed records for commercial flights.
20. Ocean waves can travel as fast as a jet aeroplane.
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Top 10 Craziest Science Facts
Weird Science Facts: Top 10 Myths in Science
- There is no gravity in space
- Humans use only 10 percent of their brains
- Yawning is "contagious"
- A penny dropped from the top of a tall building could kill a pedestrian
- Adults don't grow new brain cells
- Chicken soup can cure the common cold
- Eating a poppy seed bagel mimics opium use
- Lightning never strikes the same place twice
- Chickens can live without a head
- Water drains backwards in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Earth's rotation
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