Saturday, February 7, 2026

What are the most fascinating science facts?

 1. A teaspoonful of a neutron star would weigh 6 billion tons

2. A flea can accelerate faster than the Space Shuttle

3. There is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times

4. It takes a photon up to 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth

5. In an entire lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world

6. Grasshoppers have ears in their bellies

7. Octopuses have three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood

8. The world’s smallest fidget spinner is 100 microns wide

9. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph

10. The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40

11. One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth

12. Our ears keep on growing throughout our lives with almost unbelievable speed — a quarter of a millimeter per year!

13. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!

14. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers

15. If you took out all the empty space in our atoms, the human race could fit in the volume of a sugar cube

Hopefully, you enjoyed reading… :)