Science amazing facts

Surprise yourself with the Mysteries of Science!

5 Facts about Human Body
1. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body laid end to
end they would circle the earth 2.5 times.
2. The largest organ in the body is the skin. In an adult man it covers
about 1.9m2 (20sq ft). The skin constantly flakes away in a lifetime each
person sheds around 18kg (40 lb) of skin.
3. Each kidney contains 1 million individual filters. They filter an average
of around 1.3 litres (2.2 pints) of blood per minute and expel up to 1.4
litres (2.5 pints) a day of urine.
4. The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To
give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50
miles) every day.
5. Brain is capable of having more ideas than the number of atoms in the
known universe!
5 Facts about Plants
1.

A single rye plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground.

2. The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from 10-25 gallons in
24 hours.
3. Plants cannot change their habitat.
4. Petals are usually colorful, and they attract insects and birds that help
with pollination.
5. Onions contain a mild antibiotic that fights infections, soothes burns,
tames bee stings and relieves the itch of athletes foot.
5 Facts about Animals
1. Sharks need to swim, or they will sink!
2. All dogs are identical in anatomy - 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth
3. An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.
4. A ducks quack doesnt echo, and no one knows why.
5. Butterflies taste with their feet.

5 Facts about Pollution

1. A plastic cup can take 50 - 80 years to decompose. About 14 billion
pounds of plastic is dumped in the worlds oceans every year.
2. Sewage from boating can pollute. Untreated sewage is a significant
risk to human health and wildlife.
3. The things we do everyday contribute to over half the pollution in
Puget Sound. Litter thrown on the ground can end up in our storm drains,
ditches and streams.
4. More than 100 active pesticide ingredients are suspected of causing
cancer, birth defects and gene mutation.
5. For every one of the 6 billion people on earth, nearly four tons of
carbon dioxide is spewed into the air annually.

5 Facts about Planets

1. A Planet falls into two categories. It is either a Terrestrial Planet or a
Gas Giant.
2. The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 C during the
day and at night, plummets to minus 180C.
3. A hundred pound man would weight 38 pounds on Mars.
4. Jupiter is so big that it could fit all the other planets in the solar system
inside it, having the great red spot which is a storm that has been going
on for over 300 years.
5. The clouds of Venus is filled with sulfuric acid.

5 Tech Facts

1. The Internet is the fastest-growing tool of communication ever. It took

radio broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television
13 years and the Internet just 4 years.
2. The United States generates more ewaste than any other nation.

3. The first e-mail was sent over the Internet in 1972.

4. The electric chair was invented by a dentist, Alfred Southwick.
5. As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by our
head.

5 Strange Facts

1. The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth
of nearly 500 feet.
2. Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
3. At over 2000 kilometers long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest
living structure on Earth.
4. Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
5. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

5 Funny Facts

1. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

2. It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
3. The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can
use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles.
4. The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life.
5. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on
watch is 10:10.

5 Wierd Facts

1. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance

Florence to shave them off!

2. The original name for the butterfly was flutterby!

3. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
4. In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50
minutes!
5. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to
eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
5 Crazy Facts

1. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

2. A chicken loses its feathers when it becomes tressed.
3. Most cows give more milk when they listen to usic.
4.Snakes have no eyelids and are completely deaf.
5.Flamingoes are the some of the only creatures designed to survive in
the caustic environment of a volcanic lake.