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.