14 Science Facts You Can Go on Living Without, But Are Interesting to Know Nonetheless
by N/A, 9 years ago |
3 min read
If nothing else, these facts are at least good to know for those abstract scientific discussions you have no place being in.
And if not that, they're at least fun to know.
1. The human brain takes in 11 million individuals pieces of information per second but is only cognizant of roughly 40.
2. An average-sized cumulus cloud weighs roughly the same as 80 elephants.
3. While they don't have any memory, plants do have the ability to recognize their close relatives. Upon doing so, they will work along side each other to grow stronger.
4. On Venus, it snows metal. Two types have been discovered so far: galena and bismuthinite.
5. If you drove your car at 60 mph straight up, it would take you just under six months to reach the moon.
6. Great white sharks are capable of living up to 50 years old.
7. The deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench, is 36,200 feet down, or, the length of 25 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of one another.
8. The earth spins at roughly 1000 mph and travels through space at around 67,000 mph.
9. Scallops have as many as 100 eyes. But at only a millimeter in diameter, they're anatomically simple, and can only detect changes in overall light.
10. The scientific name for brain breeze is "Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia."
11. A handshake transfers more germs than a kiss.
12. Seahorses don't have stomachs. Their intestines, which break down and absorb the nutrients from their food, serve its functions for them.
13. Ignoring the heat of its core, if you drilled a hole directly through the earth and jumped in, it would take exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to reach the other side.
14. Because of the protein required to make an egg shell, scientists have concluded that the chicken, not the egg, came first.
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