Science Amazing facts (part1)
1. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
2. Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
3.If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
4. If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
5. The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
6. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
7. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
8. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
9. The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
10. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
1. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
2. Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
3.If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
4. If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
5. The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
6. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
7. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
8. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
9. The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
10. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
11. Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
12. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
13. Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
14. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
15. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
16. The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.
17. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
18. Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.
19. Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.
20. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200 and the monkey have 48 chromsomes.
21. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
22. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
23. Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.
24. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
25. The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
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