Fun Facts About Science!!!

Fun Facts About Science!!!

^{Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of
honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still
perfectly edible.}

^{The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes
between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896.}

^{One teaspoon of honey represents the life work of 12
bees.}

^{Lightning strikes the Earth about 8 million times a
day.}

^{Octopuses have three hearts.}

^{A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100
million tons.}

^{The human body contains enough carbon to produce 900
pencils.}

^{A group of flamingos is called a
"flamboyance."}

^{An adult human is made up of approximately
7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.}

^{A cockroach can live for several weeks without its
head because it breathes through openings in its body segments.}

^{Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't.}

^{The planet Saturn would float in water because it is
less dense than water.}

^{There are more atoms in a single glass of water than
glasses of water in all the world's oceans.}

^{The largest volcano in the solar system is Olympus
Mons on Mars, which is about 13.6 miles (22 kilometers) high.}

^{Cows have best friends and can become stressed when
separated from them.}

^{The "fear of long words" is called
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.}

^{There are more stars in the universe than grains of
sand on all the beaches on Earth.}

^{The first computer virus was created in 1983 and was
called the "Elk Cloner."}

^{Every planet in our solar system could fit between
Earth and the Moon with room to spare.}

^{Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.}

^{A strawberry isn't a true berry, but a watermelon is.}

^{The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer
due to thermal expansion.}

^{One million Earths could fit inside the Sun.}

^{Bananas are berries, but avocados are not.}

^{The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and
England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.}

^{A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to
toast 100,000 slices of bread.}

^{The human brain can generate about 23 watts of power
when awake—enough to power a light bulb.}

^{A day on Venus is longer than its year. It takes Venus
243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis and 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun.}

^{The word "scientist" was first coined in
1833 by William Whewell.}

^{The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable
from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene.}

^{When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns
red.}

^{A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to
power a small town for a month.}

^{The original name for the search engine Google was
Backrub.}

^{A jellyfish is 95% water.}

^{The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes
bone, which is located in the ear.}

^{The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and
England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.}

^{The average person spends six months of their life
waiting for red lights to turn green.}

^{A neutron star is so dense that a teaspoonful of its
material would weigh about 6 billion tons.}

^{Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.}

^{The largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly
measured 15 inches across.}