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Some Scientific Facts
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
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