Quirky Science Facts!

[Mercedes Benzene]

It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make a tablespoon of honey.

 

And how much honey is used to make one pint of mead? :beer:

[Jay-qu]

:beer: Ive eaten a fair amount of the stuff!

 

Ok,

I estimate that I have eaten around 15 jars of honey in my life, at around 250mL each 1Tablespoon ~ 15mL, thats 3000 bees that have lived and died to produce that honey for me :hihi:

 

mmm I feel like honey now :)

[hallenrm]

If you could compare your genes with those of any other human being, you would find a similarity of 99.9% on the average. It is only the remaining 0.1% that is responsible for our individuality!!! :beer:

[Michaelangelica]

Twenty-two percent of Americans claim to be certain that Jesus will return to earth to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years.

Another twenty-two percent believe that he is likely to do so.

 

SAM HARRIS

Neuroscience Researcher; Author, The End of Faith

http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_7.html#margulis

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

Originally Posted by Mercedes Benzene

Fact: No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

 

Does anyone know the science behind this?

 

It's rather simple really...the strain on you and the paper are too much (try folding a phone book in half thrice) each fold doubles the thickness of the folded paper and therefore also increases the amount of force needed for the next fold.

[Monomer]

A piece of paper has been folded in half twelve times:

Folding Paper in Half Twelve Times

 

But the paper had to be a specific length and width, and was actually so long, something like 4000 feet, that it was folded in a shopping mall.

[ingannilo]

everytime John enters my apartment he clears his throat.

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[boomshanka]

there are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

the more bugs you eat the less attractive you seem to your spouse!

[anglepose]

your nose can contain mrsa

[anglepose]

25g of fusion fuel can supply your entire life consupmtion of energy

[Boerseun]

When the duck-billed platupus was found in Australia years ago, European scientists struggled to classify and name it (after being convinced that it wasn't a hoax, of course). So, they named it platypus, being latin for "flat-foot". Not very original, but then some bright spark found that the name platypus was already assigned to a species of beetle, which also had flat feet! So the scientists went back to the drawing board, and came up with the proper name, ornithorhynchus, meaning "bird-bill". Much more descriptive.

 

Problem is, once they decided on the proper name, "platypus" was already embedded in the public mind, and became the popular name for it. But till today, when you talk about a "platypus", you're actually talking about a specific beetle. So almost without fail, the term "duck-billed" is inserted in front of "platypus" for the distinction to be made.

 

...but the proper name is ornithorhynchus anatinus.

 

So now you know! :D

[Michaelangelica]

your nose can contain mrsa

Whats "mrsa" pls?

[eric l]

Whats "mrsa" pls?

 

methicilin-resistent staphylococcus aureus ? That's one of those antibiotic-resistant germs you can get infected with in hospitals and similar environments.

[Michaelangelica]

methicilin-resistent staphylococcus aureus ? That's one of those antibiotic-resistant germs you can get infected with in hospitals and similar environments.

 

Thanks eric. I copped one when in hospital last year; took days to find an anti-biotic that worked.

 

 

 

. . . after 250 or so years of cataloguing and describing the plant kingdom we do not yet have a reasonably accurate estimate of the total number of flowering plant species, threatened or not, on Earth.

We just do not know how large the world’s flora is!

We do not even have a list of plant species.

SOURCE:

How many plant species are there?

[Michaelangelica]

there are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.

 

No, can't be;? I have seen pictures of millions of them migrating around lakes in Africa.

How fake?

[Jay-qu]

UV-A is what gives you Vitamin D and will not give you sunburn, while UV-B will burn you without providing any Vitamins