Amazing Science Facts
- Word "Science" derives from Latin word scientia meaning knowledge.
- Human needs approximately 12 hours in order to entirely digest the food.
- Brain cells are the longest living cells in our body, they can last for an entire lifetime.
- Some human brains are bigger than other and the biggest human brain weighed 2, 3 kg.
- Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system with surface temperature above 450 C.
- If we are to believe scientists, there are approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies "out there".
- Sound travels 4 times faster in water than in air.
- The highest recorded temperature on Earth was measured in Libya in 1922, and it was 58°C.
- The lowest recorded temperature on our planet was -89.6°C. This was measured in Antarctica in 1983.
- Not all animals on our planet have brains, for instance starfish do not have brains.
- Kangaroos are lacking ability to walk backwards.
- While cancer is perhaps the greatest disease of humanity, sharks do not have this problem as they are totally immune to cancer.
- Surprisingly enough little mosquito has 47 teeth.
- In case you have ever wondered why giraffes are such a quiet animals it is because they have no vocal chords to make any noise.
- Hot water freezes quicker than the cold water.
- Humans are not the only creatures on Earth that cry, elephants are crying creatures too.
- There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times.
- A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs.
- It takes about 60 seconds for a human blood cell to make a complete circuit of the body.
- The lightest baby to survive weighed a mere 283 grams.
- On average, women say 7,000 words per day while men manage just over 2,000 words.
- The average person will drink about 16,000 gallons of water in his/her lifetime.
- The human brain is composed of 75% water.
- There are approximately 550 hairs in a person’s eyebrow.
- Your liver performs over 500 functions in your body.
- The diamond is the mineral as found in nature. There is no known material of greater hardness on Earth, so in order to carve a diamond would have to use another diamond.
- H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water.
- Sheep can recognize individual human and sheep faces, and remember them for years.
- The first colour photograph was created by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, with the help of the English photographer Thomas Sutton, in the year 1861.
- Polar bears are nearly invisible under infrared photography.
- It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
