INTERESTING SCIENCE FACTS...
=>The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second – that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).
=>It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
=>Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
=>Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
=>Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
=>The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
=>The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
=>Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
=>When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
=>The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
=>Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
=>Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
=>Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.
=>An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
=>The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
=>Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down
=>There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
=>On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
=> The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
=>. The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
=> Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
=>More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
=> The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
=> There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
=> Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
=> Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
=> The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
=> The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
=>. In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.
=> A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
=> A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.
=> To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
