interesting facts about science

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below28 – An electric eel can produce a shock of
 up to 650 volts.
1 – The speed of light is generally rounded29 – ‘Wireless’ communications took
down to 186,000 miles per second. In exacta giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of
terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (equal to 186,287.49Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying
miles per second).telephone and satellite TV signals.
2 – It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to30 – The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5
travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.humans it infects.
3 – 10 percent of all human beings ever born31 – In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of
are alive at this very moment.fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
4 – The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it32 – Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes
travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours
5 – Every year, over one million earthquakes(in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare.
shake the Earth.They never lie down.
6 – When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force33 – There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels
was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometersin the human body.
away in Australia.34 – An individual blood cell takes about 60
7 – Every second around 100 lightning boltsseconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
strike the Earth.35 – On the day that Alexander Graham Bell
8 – Every year lightning kills 1000 people.was buried the entire US telephone system was
9 – In October 1999 an Iceberg the size ofshut down for 1 minute in tribute.
London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .36 – The low frequency call of the humpback
10 – If you could drive your car straight upwhale is the loudest noise made by a living
you would arrive in space in just over an hour.creature.
11 – Human tapeworms can grow up to37 – A quarter of the world’s plants are
22.9m.threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
12 – The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the38 – Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or
same age as the Moon and the Sun.her lifetime.
13 – The dinosaurs became extinct before the39 – At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are
Rockies or the Alps were formed.the largest on the planet.
14 – Female black widow spiders eat their40 – The Universe contains over 100 billion
males after mating.galaxies.
15 – When a flea jumps, the rate of41 – Wounds infested with maggots heal
acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttlequickly and without spread of gangrene or other
during launch.infection.
16 – If our Sun were just inch in diameter,42 – More germs are transferred shaking
the nearest star would be 445 miles away.hands than kissing.
17 – Astronauts cannot belch – there is no43 – The fastest speed a falling raindrop can
gravity to separate liquid from gas in theirhit you is 18mph.
stomachs.44 – It would take over an hour for a heavy
18 – The air at the summit of Mount Everest,object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part
29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air atof the ocean.
sea level.45 – Around a million, billion neutrinos from the
19 – One million, million, million, million, millionthSun will pass through your body while you read
of a second after the Big Bang the Universe wasthis sentence.
the size of a …pea.46 – The deepest part of any ocean in the
20 – DNA was first discovered in 1869 byworld is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a
Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.depth of 35,797 feet.
21 – The molecular structure of DNA was47 – Every hour the Universe expands by a
first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.billion miles in all directions.
22 – The first synthetic human chromosome48 – Somewhere in the flicker of a badly
was constructed by US scientists in 1997.tuned TV set is the background radiation from
23 – The thermometer was invented in 1607the Big Bang.
by Galileo.49 – Even traveling at the speed of light it
24 – Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.would take 2 million years to reach the nearest
25 – Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobellarge galaxy, Andromeda.
Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895. 
26 – The tallest tree ever was an Australian you can find lot of interesting fact in the link 
eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435below
feet tall.50 – A thimbleful of a neutron star would
27 – Christian Barnard performed the firstweigh over 100 million tons.
heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for