Quirky Science Facts!

[Mercedes Benzene]

The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert. :)

[Jay-qu]

The lighter was invented before the match!

[Mercedes Benzene]

On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried, the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute. :)

[Jay-qu]

The billionth digit of pi is 9

 

mmm pi :)

[Mercedes Benzene]

If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.

[Jay-qu]

The planet Venus does not tilt as it goes around the Sun, so consequently, it has no seasons.

[Jay-qu]

A roach is the only animal known to be capable of surviving a nuclear explosion.

 

bloody bugs..

[Mercedes Benzene]

The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk. :(

 

I would hate not being able to walk if I was a bat. :)

[Jay-qu]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

[Mercedes Benzene]

Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth. :)

[Jay-qu]

The number of neuron cells in our brain is more than the total number of stars in our galaxy

[Mercedes Benzene]

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

:)

[Jay-qu]

There's enough gold in the Earth's crust to cover the entire land surface knee-deep.

 

I want some of it :)

[Mercedes Benzene]

There are roughly 3500 hair cells and 30,000 nerve fibres found in the cochlea, a bony structure shaped like a snail's shell that's located deep within the inner ear.

[Jay-qu]

Gold is very ducile - just one ounce can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.

[Mercedes Benzene]

I especially love this one. Ahhh chemistry:

 

The average cup of coffee contains more than 1000 different chemical components, none of which is tasted in isolation but only as part of the overall flavour.

[Jay-qu]

142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multipled by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142 :eek: