Some Scientific Facts

[Shamim Ansary]

– 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.

– If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

– Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

– The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

– One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

– DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

[Shamim Ansary]

– It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

– 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

– The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

– Every year, over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

– When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.

– Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

– Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

– In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

– If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

– 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.

– If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

– Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

– The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

– One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

– DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

[Shamim Ansary]

– The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.

– The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.

– The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

– Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

– Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

– The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.

– 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.

– ‘Wireless’ communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.

– The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.

[Shamim Ansary]

– In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

– 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.

– An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the 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.

– A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

– Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.

– At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.

– The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

[Shamim Ansary]

– Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.

– More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

– The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

– It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.

– Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.

– The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.

– Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.

– Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

– Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.

– A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.

Source: http://immenseknowledge.blogspot.com/2006/10/50-interesting-science-facts.html

[rubel]

Nice post and knowledgeable. Thanks

[skaka]

Thanks. Informative post will increase our general knowledge. Please Keep it up.

[Shamim Ansary]

- There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times

- At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth

- The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years

- A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons

- A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs

[Shamim Ansary]

- Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide

- The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph, by Fred Rompelberg

- We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine

- 65% of those with autism are left handed

- The combined length of the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles

[Shamim Ansary]

- The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet

- The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion, billion, billion liters of alcohol [JFrater is planning to move there in the near future]

- Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air

- 60-65 million years ago dolphins and humans shared a common ancestor

- Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur

[Shamim Ansary]

- The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life

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

- The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees C during the day, and, at night, plummets to minus 180 degrees centigrade

- The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from ten to twenty-five gallons in twenty-four hours

- Butterflies taste with their hind feet, and their taste sensation works on touch – this allows them to determine whether a leaf is edible

Source: http://listverse.com/2007/12/19/top-20-amazing-science-facts/

[tasnuva]

Very informative post.Thanks for sharing.

[Shamim Ansary]

Interesting Real Facts

1 -69% Americans use Internet & 5.5% Indians only.


2 -El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 - the hottest ever measured.


3 -Plastics take 500 years to break down.


4 -America has 30.30% airports of the world & India has only 0.70%.


5 -There are roughly 4,000 known minerals, although only about 200 are of major importance.


6 -The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.


7 -Crocodile is the only animal & reptile that sheds tear while eating.


8 -The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed.


9 -Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).


10 -The sunrays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds.

[Shamim Ansary]

Interesting Real Facts

11 -8.7 million of United State residents who were born in Asia.


12 -The world’s population has been increased 3.1 billion in last 40 years.


13 -180 million nos. of Valentine’s Day cards exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion.


14 -3,467 Nos. of confectionery nut stores in the United States, they are among the best sources of sweets for Valentine’s Day.


15 -4% people drink cold drink daily.


16 -Traffic lights are being used before the invention of motor car.


17 -More than 50 million Americans said they had a disability; for 32.5 million of them, the disability was severe.


18 -About 40% Proportion of all Valentine card purchases which parents account for.


19 -First Stock Exchange of America was in Philadelphia & it was established in 1791.


20 -Girls however are slightly more likely than boys to use home computers for e-mail, word processing and completing school assignments than playing games.

[Shamim Ansary]

Interesting Real Facts

21 -A normal person laughs five times in a day.


22 -Approximate 300 million film tickets are sold every year in India.


23 -In Britain 70% mothers go for work.


24 -More artists live in California than any other state in the United States. There are 10,000 arts organizations in California.


25 -Alfred Southwick developed the idea of using electric current & Professionally he was a Dentist (MDS, DDS).


26 -A man says average 4850 words in 24 hours.


27 -The world's populaton is approximately 6.53 billion (2006), India & China represent 36.92% of the world's populations.


28 -Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo kabushikigaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.


29 -40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.


30 -315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.