Facts about science that you never heard:
Space Science:
1. One million Earth can fit inside the sun.
2. In space, you can cry but your tears don't fall.
3. The Apollo crews did not have any life insurance.
4. The furthest man-made object is Voyager 1. It has a message for aliens on-board.
5. The moon looks bigger on the horizon.
6. The Apollo astronauts footprints on the moon will probably stay there for at least 100 million years.
7. There is an uncountable number of stars on the known universe.
8. 99% of our solar system's mass is the sun.
9. More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.
10. The largest asteroid ever recorded is a mammoth piece of the space rock named Ceres.
11. If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in space, they will bond and be permanently stuck together.
12. If you put Saturn in water it would float because of its lightweight.
13. We are moving through space at the rate of 530Km in a second.
14. The moon is drifting away from earth.
15. The sun loses up to a billion kilogram a second due to solar winds.
16. The astronauts were placed in quarantine after returning from the moon.
17. In space, the skin on your feet peels off.
18. There are thousands of another planet out there.
19. Neutron stars can spin at a rate of 600 rotation per second (RPS).
20. All of space is completely silent
Others:
21. The only one latter that appear on the periodic table is ‘J’.
22. The world’s smallest fidget spinner is 100 microns wide.
23. Lungs do more than help us breathe – a surprising discovery has found they also make blood.
24. There is enough DNA is the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back-17 times.
25. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for the light to travel from the sun’s surface to the earth.
26. The earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
27. If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
28. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times
29. A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs.
30. The temperature on the surface of mercury exceeds 430 degrees c during the day, and, at night, plummets to minus 180 degrees centigrade.
31. Butterflies taste with their hind feet, and their taste sensation works on touch – this allows them to determine whether a leaf is edible.
32. When helium is cooled to almost absolute zero (-460°f or -273°c, the lowest temperature possible), it becomes a liquid with surprising properties: it flows against gravity and will start running up and over the lip of a glass container.
33. Hot water turns into ice faster than cold water.
34. The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius b contains a billion, billion, billion litres of alcohol [jfrater is planning to move there in the near future].
35. Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
36. The known universe is made up of 50,000,000,000 galaxies.
37. Lasers can get trapped in a waterfall.
38. An egg looks like a crazy jellyfish underwater.
39. A single hair can hold the weight of a hanging apple. However, scientists don’t specify the dimensions of the apple.
40. Over the course of just one day, our blood ’runs’ the distance of 19,312 kilometres.
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