What are some of the most interesting facts in science that you have come across?
- Scientists finally concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg because the protein which makes eggshells is only produced by hens.
- Scientists have developed a way of charging mobile phones using urine.
- In 2013, two physicists managed to "tie" water into knots.
- When 70 people come together there is a 99.99% possibility that at least two of them were born on the same day.
- The World's oldest known creature, a mollusc, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.
- The human stomach can dissolve razor blades.
- Pandas must eat 28 pounds of bamboo each day to survive.
- Rats laugh when being tickled.
- 70% of the time, ice from fast-food restaurants was dirtier than toilet water.
- There are more trees on Earth than stars in our galaxy.
- A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
- If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.
- 41 new species are discovered by scientists every single day.
- In middle school, 74% of girls express interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, but when choosing a college major, just 0.4% of high school girls select computer science.
- Most diamonds on the Earth's surface are between 1 and 3 billion years old.
- You can swim through syrup just as fast as you can swim through water, even though is many times thicker.
- It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.
- Bees can be trained to detect bombs.
- Research has found that if the expressions on your face suggest that you’re happy and alert people are more likely to consider you as a smart person.
- The "smell of rain" is caused by a bacteria called actinomycetes.
- Marie Curie is the only person to ever win Nobel prizes in two different areas of science.
- Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
- It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth.
- Scientists can identify individual zebras by "scanning" their stripes like a barcode.
- Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise.