Interesting and Fun Facts about Science

• Over one million earthquakes wobble the Earth every twelve months.
• Approximately one hundred lightning bolts hit the Earth every second, killing a thousand people in a year.
• If it takes 8 minutes and 17 seconds for light to travel from the surface of the Sun to the Earth, it will just take you over an hour to reach space if you could drive your car straight up. While taking you about 193 years at 55 miles per hour if you could drive to the sun.
• The Sun, the Moon and the Earth all have the same age — 4.56 billion years old.
• It is one million times drier in the moon compared to the Gobi Desert.
• The planet Saturn would float if placed in water because of its density lower than water.
• The universe gets bigger by a billion times in all directions every hour.
• A falling raindrop can hit you as fast as a speed of 18mph.
• It takes a heavy object to sink 6.7miles down to the deepest part of the ocean, over an hour. Water, as it freezes, expands by approximately 10 percent.
• The only metal that is liquid at room temperature is Mercury.
• Glass will dissolve in hydrofluoric acid.
• The first virus was found in both plants and animals about a hundred of years ago.
• The hardest substance known to man is Diamond while the second is Boron Nitride.
• Every year, Hawaii is moving 4 inches toward Japan while the North Atlantic yearly gets 1 inch wider.
• By the year 2010, a quarter of the earth’s plants are in jeopardy with extinction.

ANIMALS

• Giraffes never lie down, never cough and only sleep for 20 minutes in 24 hours. Elephants sleep an average of two hours a day while koalas sleep two hours more than the sloth with an average of 22 hours a day. Ants never sleep.
• The giant salamander is the world’s largest amphibian because it can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
• The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.
• The sense of smell of a dog is a thousand times more sensitive than humans.
• Cockroaches can live without its head for several weeks.
• Bats cannot walk because they have very thin leg bones.
• The animal that is immune to cancer is the shark.
• A camel’s spine is straight despite the hump.
• A giraffe’s neck has the same number as the human vertebrae.
• 13 seconds is the longest recorded flight of a chicken.
• The heart of a shrimp is in their head.
• The location of the ears of a cricket is on the front legs, just below the knee.

HUMANS

• The human body has 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
• Each individual casts off 40 pounds of skin in his or her lifetime and 70 percent of shed human skin comprises the dust in your home.
• There are more germs being transmitted through shaking of the hands compared to kissing.
• As a tribute to the inventor of telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute during the day he was buried.
• On record, the man who possessed the heaviest human brain was a Russian dramatist named Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, who died in 1883.
• Research suggests that smoking professors are twice as likely to write a book than those non-smoking professors.
• Stapes or Stirrup, a bone in the middle ear, is the smallest bone found in the human body about .11 inches long
• The human eye, on an average, blinks about 17 thousand times a day and 4.2 million times a year.
• In order for food to be completely digested, it takes about 12 hours.
• It takes an average person to fall asleep in 7 minutes.
• You consume 1/10 of a calorie every time you lick a stamp.
• You can’t sneeze and open your eyes at the same time.
• With the absence of gravity, the cartilage disks in our spine expand. That is the reason why astronauts can grow up to 2 inches taller after returning from space.
• The size of our eyes the moment we were born is always the same while our ears and nose continues to grow.
• While reading this sentence, around a million billion neutrinos will pass through your body from the Sun.