Friday, December 5, 2025

What are some of the most interesting facts in science that you have come across?

  1. Scientists finally concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg because the protein which makes eggshells is only produced by hens.
  2. Scientists have developed a way of charging mobile phones using urine.
  3. In 2013, two physicists managed to "tie" water into knots.
  4. When 70 people come together there is a 99.99% possibility that at least two of them were born on the same day.
  5. The World's oldest known creature, a mollusc, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.
  6. The human stomach can dissolve razor blades.
  7. Pandas must eat 28 pounds of bamboo each day to survive.
  8. Rats laugh when being tickled.
  9. 70% of the time, ice from fast-food restaurants was dirtier than toilet water.
  10. There are more trees on Earth than stars in our galaxy.
  11. A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
  12. If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.
  13. 41 new species are discovered by scientists every single day.
  14. 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.
  15. Most diamonds on the Earth's surface are between 1 and 3 billion years old.
  16. You can swim through syrup just as fast as you can swim through water, even though is many times thicker.
  17. It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.
  18. Bees can be trained to detect bombs.
  19. 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.
  20. The "smell of rain" is caused by a bacteria called actinomycetes.
  21. Marie Curie is the only person to ever win Nobel prizes in two different areas of science.
  22. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
  23. It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth.
  24. Scientists can identify individual zebras by "scanning" their stripes like a barcode.
  25. Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise.