Wondrous Facts about Science
☼ A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.
☼ A medium-sized cumulus cloud weighs about the same as 80 elephants.
☼ There is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the Earth to the Sun more than 100 times (2 × 1014 metres).
☼ Without the effect of Earth’s gravity, astronauts can lose up to 2% of their bone material each month!
☼ In 1999, a power cut in the Philippines left 40 million people without electricity. It was caused by jellyfish being sucked into a cooling pipe.
☼ The average person in the UK walks 3,000 to 4,000 steps per day.
☼ You hum through your nose, not your mouth.
☼ Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the scientific term for brain freeze.
☼ The deepest part of the ocean would fit 24.5 Empire State Buildings on top of each other.
☼ Scientists have created a functioning guitar the size of a human blood cell.
☼ The Atlantic Giant Squid’s eye can be as large as 40 cm wide.
☼ No matter its size or thickness, no sheet of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
☼ We cut down around 27,000 trees every day to make toilet paper!
☼ A small patch of soil just 1 m2 in area can hold a billion living things.