SCIENCE FACT
1. The human body has enough iron in it to make a 3-inch nail.
2. A single teaspoon of honey represents the life work of 12 bees.
3. Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
4. Water can boil and freeze at the same time, a phenomenon known as the triple point.
5. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, not Mercury.
6. Your stomach gets a new lining every 3-4 days to prevent it from digesting itself.
7. A day on Venus is longer than its year.
8. Bacteria make up more mass on Earth than all plants and animals combined.
9. The Eiffel Tower can grow more than 6 inches during summer due to metal
expansion.
10. DNA was first discovered in 1869, but its structure wasn’t understood until 1953.
11. Humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas.
12. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell, the Milky Way would be the size of the
United States.
13. Sound travels 4.3 times faster in water than in air.
14. The speed of light in a vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second.
15. Neutron stars can spin at a rate of 600 rotations per second.
16. The human nose can detect over 1 trillion scents.
17. A cockroach can live for weeks without its head.
18. The Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way.
19. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all Earth's beaches.
20. Hot water freezes faster than cold water under certain conditions—called the Mpemba
effect.
21. Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins.
22. The average human body contains enough carbon to fill 9,000 'lead' pencils.
23. A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
24. The Earth’s inner core is as hot as the surface of the sun.
25. A single drop of seawater contains millions of microscopic organisms.
26. The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest machine.
27. Butterflies can taste with their feet.
28. Astronauts’ height increases by about 2 inches in space.
29. Plants can communicate with each other through underground fungal networks.
30. The human brain has about 86 billion neurons.
31. Sharks are older than trees in evolutionary history.
32. An octopus has three hearts and blue blood.
33. The Moon is slowly moving away from the Earth at about 1.5 inches per year.
34. A cloud can weigh over a million pounds.
35. Honey never spoils; it has been found in edible condition in ancient tombs.
36. Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
37. Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.
38. The Milky Way galaxy is on a collision path with the Andromeda galaxy, due to
occur in about 4 billion years.
39. Saturn's density is so low it would float in water.
40. A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.