20 Interesting Scientific Facts

Science is full of wonders and things that amuse us. We feel that we know everything about the human body but in actual we don’t. We reckon that we know everything about the animal world but in actual our knowledge is far from complete.

Here we take you on a small journey a peep through 20 interesting scientific facts not just about humans but also the animal world, seas, and oceans, and outer space. 

• 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

• Bloodsucking 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

• 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 soon]

• 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

• 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.

• There is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times.

• The average human body carries ten times more bacterial cells than human cells.

• In an entire lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world.

• There are over two dozen states of matter (that we know of).

 

When we feel that we know everything there comes up something new that we couldn’t imagine would be present. Each day a new animal species is found a new organ is found in the human body that no one knew about.

 

About outer space, we have a knowledge that is just 5% of what outer space is. Some questions are there an alternative galaxy where exists humans or some species like us.

 

Science is fascinating that never loses our interest. Something worth striving for.

Written By Tanu