What are the most fascinating science facts?

8/12/2019

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Science Story: What are the most fascinating science facts?

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The world's oceans contain 20 million tons of gold.

In 2.3 billion years it will be too hot for life to exist on Earth.

Ants are capable of carrying objects 50 times their own body weight.

An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

Lasers can get trapped in a waterfall.

According to scientist stress & anxiety are a normal part of life and can be avoided by playing regular brain puzzles.

Grasshoppers have ears in their bellies.

Adults have fewer bones than a baby.

An ice cube takes up about 9 percent more volume than the water used to make it.

Ladybirds can fly at speeds up to 60 kph.

Coconut water can be used as blood plasma.

There are more trees on Earth than stars in our galaxy.

Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second – 86 million each day.

Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

Oxygen has a color. (In its liquid and solid forms, however, it looks pale blue.)

You lose about 0.5 kilograms a day by farting. It’s estimated that the total mass of a fart is 0.0371 grams, and the average person farts about 14 times a day.

Hot water freezes faster than cold water.

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45 Comments

Alireza Mohtashami

Don't believe there are more trees than stars in Galaxy

Joanne Jolin

Ladybug not ladybird

Michael Stafford

Richard Perkins, they are known as ladybirds in the United Kingdom. I doubt they fly at 60mph too though!

Bill Knott

there are about 1 billion stars in the Milky Way. There are more than 3 trillion trees on earth.

Bill Knott

mldopeydoc, add a little rum - as an antiseptic

Elsy O. Stromberg

Chriss Crockford, No. And no way there are more trees than stars given how incredibly vast the universe is!

Elsy O. Stromberg

Stress and anxiety can be avoided by playing brain puzzles? They can help alleviate it, but they won't eliminate it. Also can't believe there are more trees than stars.

mldopeydoc

I now want to try coconut water as plasma!

Paula Salem

The trees on earth out numbering the stars in our galaxy surprised me. Considering how fast we are destroying trees right now.

Greg Slawson

ninakamwene, Yes, they should have specified that the Earth will be too hot due to changes in the sun--but of course global warming will probably make it too hot for humans to function within a few decades!

Oscar Lewallen

I don’t think I fart a pound of gas each day, maybe 0.5 milligrams but not 0.5 kilograms. The more trees than stars sounds iffy too. Who has time to calculate all this out?

ninakamwene

Interesting, informative and fun. The waste of sperm produced daily by males. Women are born with about 500 eggs to last them their life time of child bearing age. More efficient wouldn't you agree! The 2.3 Billion years before the planet is too hot makes sense, since our sun will gone supper nova in 10 more billion years. I really appreciate this type of learning trivia. Good job Quiz Folks. Thank you.