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5 amazing science facts that will blow your mind

A teaspoonful of neutron star.
Metals that explode when in contact with water.
Hawaii is moving closer to Alaska by 7.5cm every year.
Sunflowers are known as hyperaccumulators.
A cockroach can live for up to one week without its head.

Johann Conrad Dippel created Dippel’s oil and claimed it was elixir.
62Isaac Newton believes the world will end after 2060.
63Leucippus was the first scientist who proposed atoms.
64The density of ice is 10% lower than that of water.
65Stomach acid can dissolve razor blades.
66Many scientists believed the world was flat until the 17th century.
67Athanasius Kircher was a scientist who believed in mythological beasts.
68The Office of Alien Property Custodian confiscated Nikola Tesla’s inventions when he died.
69Stephen Hawking never won a Nobel Prize.
70A rubber tire is made up of only one molecule.
71The sun doesn’t change color during sunset.
72Sound creates heat.
73Time goes faster at the top of the building than at the bottom.
74Gyroscopic effect keeps a bike balanced.
75You can’t sink in the Dead Sea.
76Inertia keeps you from falling out of a rollercoaster.
77Sound is visible.
78The entire human race can fit inside a sugar cube.
79Touch phones don’t detect certain materials because of electrical charge.
80Thales was the first physicist.
81Silk is the strongest natural material.
82Gelatin doesn’t break if you tap it because of surface tension.
83Not all diamonds are colorless.
84Thomas Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb.

4187% of scientists believe that climate change is mostly caused by human activity.
42Gasoline can contain between 150 and 1,000 different chemical compounds.
43Oxygen isn’t colorless.
44The scientific term for brain freeze can make your head hurt, too.
45The most complete memorization of Pi lasted 70,000 decimal places.
46The biggest robot in the world weighs 11 tons.
47If you get exposed to radiation, you need to get naked.
48Scientists found the 8th continent.
49The human body is made up of 206 bones.

15 amazing science facts that will blow your mind
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Some metals are so reactive that they explode on contact with water.

Earth Science Facts

One teaspoon of good soil can contain several hundred million bacteria!! Imagine that! Oceans help spread heat from the Sun around the world. The Earth is only almost a sphere!

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Pandemic lockdowns, supply shortages, and inflation wreak havoc with big science projects New facilities around the world are falling behind their construction schedules and busting their budgets

3. It takes a photon up to 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth
A photon travels, on average, a particular distance before being briefly absorbed and released by an atom, which scatters it in a new random direction. To travel from the sun’s core to the sun’s surface (696,000 kilometers) so it can escape into space, a photon needs to make a huge number of drunken jumps.

The calculation is a little tricky, but the conclusion is that a photon takes many thousands and many millions of years to drunkenly wander to the surface of the Sun. In a way, some of the light that reaches us today is energy produced millions of years ago. Amazing!

4. At over 2,000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth
Coral reefs consist of huge numbers of individual coral polyps (soft-bodied, invertebrate animals) that are linked together by tissue. The Great Barrier Reef is an interlinked system of about 3,000 reefs and 900 coral islands divided by narrow passages, located just beneath the surface of the Coral Sea. Spanning more than 2,000 km and covering an area of some 350,000 sq km, it is the largest living structure on Earth and the only one visible from space. However, this fragile coral colony is beginning to crumble, battered by the effects of climate change, pollution, and manmade disasters.

5. There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean
A teaspoon of water (about 5 mL) contains 2×1023 water molecules, but each water molecule is comprised of 3 atoms: two hydrogen atoms and one of oxygen. Moreover, if you’d laid down end to end each water molecule from a teaspoon down end to end, you’d end up with a length of 50 billion km — 10 times the width of our solar system.

6. In an entire lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world
The average moderately active person takes around 7,500 step/day. If you maintain that daily average and live until 80 years of age, you’ll have walked about 216,262,500 steps in your lifetime. Doing the math; the average person with the average stride living until 80 will walk a distance of around 110,000 miles — which is the equivalent of walking about 5 times around the Earth, right on the equator.

5 amazing science facts that will blow your mind
A teaspoonful of neutron star. ...
Metals that explode when in contact with water. ...
Hawaii is moving closer to Alaska by 7.5cm every year. ...
Sunflowers are known as hyperaccumulators. ...
A cockroach can live for up to one week without its head.

10 Quick Science Facts that Will Blow Your Mind

1. There is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times
2. The average human body carries ten times more bacterial cells than human cells
3. It takes a photon up to 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth
5. There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean
6. In an entire lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world
7. There are actually over two dozen states of matter (that we know of)
8. Killer whales are actually dolphins
9. Grasshoppers have ears in their bellies
10. You can’t taste food without saliva