Interesting Facts About Science
1. The speed of light is usually up to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms, it is equal to 299,792,458 m/s (i.e. 186,287.49 miles per second.)
2. Light takes 8 minutes 17 seconds to travel from the surface of the Sun to the Earth.
3. October 12, 1999 was declared as the “Day of the 6 Billion” based on the UN estimates.
4. 10% of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
5. The Earth rotates at a thousand miles per hour but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 miles per hour.
6. Every year more than one million earthquakes shake the earth.
7. When Kakratoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great that it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.
8. The largest hailstone ever recorded was 1 kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
9. About 100 lightning bolts strike the earth every second.
10. Every year 1,000 people die due to lightning.
11. In October 1999, an iceberg the size of London merged with the continent of Antarctica.
12. If you could drive your car straight up, you would be in space in a little over an hour.
13. Tapeworms can grow up to 22.9 meters in the human body.
14. The Earth is about 4.56 years old and the Moon and the Sun are believed to be of the same age.
15. Dinosaurs became extinct even before the Rockies or Alps were formed.
16. When a flea jumps, the speed of acceleration is 20 times more than the speed of the spacecraft during launch.
17. If our Sun were only an inch in diameter, the nearest star would be only 445 miles away.
18. Australian bilgot plums contain 100 times more vitamin C than oranges.
19. Female black spider eats its male after intercourse.
20. Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity in their stomach to separate liquid from gas.
21. The 29,029 seat air at the summit of Mount Everest is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
22. DNA was first discovered by Swiss Friedrich Mischler in 1869.
23. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
24. The first synthetic human chromosome was made in 1997 by American scientists.
25. Thermometer was invented by Galileo in 1607.
26. Englishman Roger Baker invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
27. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
28. Wilhelm Röntgen won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1895 for his discovery of X-rays.
29. The tallest tree ever recorded was an Australian Eucalyptus, which was measured at 435 feet tall in the year 1872.
30. Christian Bernard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – Patients who had heart transplants lived for 18 days.
31. The wingspan of the Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
32. An electric eel can generate a shock of up to 650 bolts.
33. Wireless communication took a huge leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telestar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
34. The first brewers lived in Mishra around 2300 BC.
35. Out of every 5 humans who get infected with the Ebola virus, 4 die.
36. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and it will turn into a big red ball.
37. Giraffes often only sleep for 20 minutes in 24 hours, although giraffes can sleep for up to 2 hours but they never lie down.
38. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
39. If there is no layer of mucus in your stomach, then your stomach will digest itself.
40. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
41. In the human body, there are 60 thousand miles of blood vessels.
42. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make one complete circuit of the body.
43. Utopia is a large smooth area on Mars.
44. On the day Alexander Graham Bell was buried, the entire US telephone system was shut down for one minute in tribute.
45. The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest sound made by a living creature.
46. By the year 2010, a quarter of the world's plants have become extinct.
47. Every person loses 40 lbs of skin in their lifetime.
48. The largest galaxies contain a million, million stars.
49. Wounds caused by bacteria spread quickly and without gangrene or other infection.
50. A research has revealed that, more germs are transferred from one person to another by shaking hands than by kissing.
51. The longest glacier in the continent of Antarctica, Albert Glacier is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
52. The fastest rain drop is 18 miles per hour.
53. A healthy person has six thousand million, million, million hemoglobin molecules.
54. A diet rich in salmon, which is low in cholesterol, means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.
55. Three out of every 10 Dalmatian dogs suffer from hearing loss due to inbreeding.
56. It would take more than an hour for any heavy object to sink to 6.7 m in the deepest part of the ocean.
57. Every human body has more bacteria than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
58. Gray whales migrate a distance of 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
59. Each rubber molecule is made up of 65 thousand individual atoms.
60. Quasars emit more energy than 100 massive galaxies.
75. The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario Canada and Birde Fort in South Africa.
76. Sahara, the world's largest desert, covers an area of 3,500,000 square miles.
77. The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus, which was 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tons.
78. The African elephant is pregnant for 22 months.
79. The gestation period of the short-nosed bandicoot is only 12 days.
80. The mortality rate for a bite by a black mamba snake is more than 95%.
81. In the 14th century, the Black Death killed 75 million people.
82. A dog's sense of smell is 1000 times more sensitive than humans.
83. A normal storm produces energy equivalent to 8000 mega ton bombs.
84. 90% of those who die in a storm die by drowning.
85. If every star in the Milky Way were the size of a grain of salt, it would fill an Olympic swimming pool.
86. Friends, the planet Jupiter is so big that all the planets of the solar system can fit in it.
87. According to a research, 80% of the forests of the earth have been destroyed and still people are engaged in destroying them.
88. Man is the only creature in the whole universe who enjoys spicy food.
89. Do you know that owl is the only bird among all birds that can see the color blue?
90. Humans spend about 25 years of their life in sleeping.
91. When a child is born, it has three bones, and when the child becomes young, only 206 bones remain in it.
92. Do you know that every year the burden of about 76 lakh people on our earth increases.
93. On the entire surface of the earth, about one third of the surface is surrounded by desert.
94. It is said that in the entire solar system of the universe, Earth is the only planet where a solar eclipse occurs.
95. Our brain alone uses 20% of the total oxygen present in our body.
96. Among all mammals, female mammals live longer than males.
97. Do you know that the line separating day and night on our earth is called terminator.
98. Perhaps you will be shocked to know that plants also recognize their siblings like humans and take care of them.
99. The oldest living tree in the world is in California, USA. It is said that this tree is 4.843 years old.
100. A healthy human heart pumps about 1500000 barrels of blood in its entire life time which can fill 200 oil trains.
101. Bamboo is the only tree which can grow up to 3 feet in just 24 hours.
102. It takes only 6 minutes for the effect of alcohol intoxication on the human mind.
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