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1. If you can fold the paper into half for 103 times, the thickness of the fold will be more than the breadth of the entire universe. Thickness of a paper to start with is 0.0039-inch. - (This is the power of exponentiation)
2. Largest Cell in Human body is the Female Egg; Smallest Cell in human body is Male Sperm(in terms of volume). (Man up sperm, man up :))
3. Simple act of Hand washing prevents chances of infections close to 48%. Hospitals hire industrial engineers in organizing the hand wash and sanitation equipments.
4. Healthcare system was well organized and laid out in Hammurabi’s code and payment for each procedure was well documented 4000 year before(not complete but yet comparable).
5. One discrete transistor costs around $8(inflation adjusted) in 1960 and today the latest "Haswell-MB" (quad-core, 22 nm)Core i7-4940MX has 1.4 Billion transistors in it and each of them costs a whooping 0.0000007824$. (Moore’s Law)
6. If there is single form of ideal coexistence(social order), it’s at doomsday vault, where seeds coexist with full life and hope. Here some of the most antagonistic countries occupy places very close to each other.
7. It may take 4000 years for a photon to escape the sun’s field.
8. There are more atoms in a Single spoon of water than the entire Atlantic ocean measured in spoons. (To be precise 7.84 times more atoms than the Atlantic in spoons)
9. Scientists are working on Post-quantum cryptography while production level quantum computers are even quite ambitions today.
10. Traveling Sales Man Problem- a problem of a given a set of cities and distance between each pair of them; find the shortest path over the entire set of paths - is still a hard problem to solve even for the most powerful computers even if you have as few as 100 cities to visit. (Bees solve its inherently for collecting honey from more than hundreds of flowers daily, checkmate you human)

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What are the most fascinating science facts?

 1. Babies have around 100 more bones than adults

2. The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer

3. 20% of Earth’s oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest

4. Some metals are so reactive that they explode on contact with water

5. A teaspoonful of neutron star would weigh 6 billion tons

6. Hawaii moves 7.5cm closer to Alaska every year

7. Chalk is made from trillions of microscopic plankton fossils

8. In 2.3 billion years it will be too hot for life to exist on Earth

9. Polar bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras

10. It takes 8 minutes, 19 seconds for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth

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

12. Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve razor blades

13. The Earth is a giant magnet

14. Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise

15. A flea can accelerate faster than the Space Shuttle

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Scaly-foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum), the first known animal that can incorporate iron - iron sulfide - with its body, particularly its shell, and probably the only animals can do so.

Living at hydrothermal vents at Indian Ocean, this species doesn’t imbue iron sulfide into its body by themselves; it is done by bacteria (albeit the scheme how the bacteria work in the snail’s body to create iron sulfide remains speculated).

The island of Hawai’i and the nearby isles drift around 5–10 cm per year. They drift northwest from hotspots which emit magma that formed these islands millions of years ago.

The active hotspots below the archipelago is assumed to drift the islands further until at one point, it’ll submerge the archipelago. Also, there will be new islands formed from the hotspots’ activity.

Square-cube law is one of the principles that could explain why: humans can’t grow to such size as in picture above, why elephants can’t move swiftly and regulate their body temperature slowly, and why dinosaurs are heavily built.

According to this principle, humans will collapse under their own weight if they grow until 50 meters tall (or 20 meters). This also explains why ants can lift matters that are several times heavier than their body, and why humans can’t do the same regardless of exercises.

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References

Absurd Creature of the Week: The Badass Snail That Has a Shell Made of Iron

Plate Tectonics and the Hawaiian Hot Spot

Square–cube law - Wikipedia

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• Bees can be trained to detect bombs.

• Rain contains vitamin B12.

• During photosynthesis, plants emit light, called fluorescence, that humans can't see.

• Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
• You can start a fire with ice.
• There are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than body cells.
• Ice melting in Antarctica has caused a small shift in gravity in the region.

• Most dinosaurs are known from just a single tooth or bone.

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1. The human eye has a resolution of 576 megapixels.
2. The urine of a diabetic person contains so much sugar that it can be purified and made into whiskey.
3. Technically, our ears and noses continue to grow throughout our lives. This is not due to physiologic, rather physics factors, as gravity pulls the cartilages of our ears and noses down, stretching the skin and giving the impression of growth.
4. 75% of the world’s food stocks are made from 12 plants and five animal species. Think about that the next time you and your friends can’t decide on what to order.
5. Before the 17th century, science and scientists weren’t recognized as, well, scientists. They were actually called ‘’natural philosophers’’, because the concept of scientist wasn’t invented yet.
6. Grasshoppers have ears on their stomachs. On each side of the first abdominal segment of a grasshopper, right under the wings, they have membranes that vibrate when they are hit by sound waves
7. Lake Superior has an island, which has a lake, which has an island which has a pond which has a boulder. Wait, we’re not done yet – when the pond floods, it becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world.
8. The nuclear bombs detonated in 1945 are the reason why experts can detect fake oil paintings. Isotopes such as strontium-90 and cesium-137 that can be found in oil did not exist in nature before the bombings. So, if a picture contains these isotopes, one can safely assume it was painted after 1945.
9. You are 10 times more likely to get bitten by a New Yorker than a shark.
10. There are more different possible chess game variations (10^120) than there are atoms in the observable universe (10^80).
11. Scallops have up to 200 eyes.
12. Before radium was known to cause cancer, it was thought to have healing qualities. The public was so oblivious to its dangers that it was put in water, chocolate, suppositories and even inserted in the urethra to treat impotence.
13. Besides global warming, the next big thing that will change Antarctica’s ecosystem is penguin poop. For the last 5,000 years, penguins have provided the rocks in Antarctica with 16 million pounds of nutrient-rich poop, which can one day support plants and animals that can’t currently survive in Antarctica.
14. It would take you 900,000 Dromedary Camels, back to back, to cover the entire width of the Saharan Desert.
15. The award for the country with the most tornadoes per square mile goes to… the United Kingdom
16. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
17. Newborn babies pick up their parent’s accent while still in the womb.
18. Peanuts are legumes, not nuts. So technically speaking, people that are allergic to peanuts are actually allergic to legumes, not nuts.
19. There is a feeling similar to deja vu called ‘’deja reve’’. Instead of feeling like you’ve previously experienced an event in real life, deja reve makes you feel like you’ve previously experienced an event in a dream.
20. At birth, a baby blue whale weighs as much as its mother’s tongue.

REF: 101 Weird Science Facts For Showing off at Parties | Let's Get Sciencey

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 Astronauts used to carry pistol in Space (TP-82)

Soviet cosmonauts used to carry a Triple barrelled pistol in their space missions.

They did not carry these pistols to fight off the rogue aliens but they carried these pistols to fight with the Siberian wildlife (bears and wolves) in case of the landings.

These pistols can be used to hunt, to protect themselves and to create audio and distress signals.

Above is the picture of TP-82 pistol in the army museum

Australian birds spread wild fires

There are birds in Australia that spread the wildfires so that they can flush out their prey out of the jungle. The birds pick up the burning sticks and drop them off in different parts of the wilderness to spread the fire.

Black kites, whistling kites and brown falcons spread these fires.

Female Gladiators aka Gladiatrix

Female Gladiators were called Gladiatrix. They fought with their male counterparts (Gladiators) shoulder to shoulder for the entertainment of the crowd and to serve their masters.

Earth was covered by Giant Mushrooms

Before the trees existed on the face of the earth, earth was believed to be covered by big white mushrooms. These mushrooms were believed to be 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide.

Pigeon poop is crown’s property in United Kingdom

Yes, you read it right. Pigeon poop is the property of the crown in the united Kingdom because it can be used to make gunpowder.

This was declared by King George 1 in the eighteenth century.

Wheels on the chair were invented by Darwin

Charles Darwin was known to be the first to put wheels on the chair as he liked to move from one place to another for the purpose of his research.

No specific time zones on South pole.

There are no specific time zones in Antarctica and arctic. Some of the reasons can be that no one lives there.

However, there are research stations on the south pole they are free to choose as to which time zone they want to operate in.

Horse feet tells about how the Rider Died

The feet of the horse in the statutes actually explains how the person riding the horse died.

1. If both the feet of the horse are on the ground - the rider died of natural consequences
2. If front legs of the horse are in air - the rider died in war
3. If one leg of the horse is in air - the rider died of wounds from the battle.

Some people think that equestrian statue is a myth and not a true fact. What I have read is there are some exceptions to this rule as well.

Millions of years ago - Penguins were 6Ft. Tall

The bones discovered in Seymour Island which are believed to be around 40 million years old are gigantic.

The penguin was termed as Mega Penguin and the species believed to be 6ft. tall is Palaeeudyptes klekowskii Myrcha.

The above image shows the comparative analyses of the penguins as we know them today and the penguins which went extinct.

Ghost marriages

Ghost marriages are prevalent in China and France, however it is prevalent all over the world.

The common belief is that the departed soul should not remain without a partner in the afterlife. It is a 3000 year old custom which can be observed in china even today.

World's largest desert is ANTARCTICA

We often imagine deserts to be hot with the sun shining at it's maximum, but factually Antarctica is the world's largest desert.

Point NEMO

Point Nemo is the farthest place from civilization on planet earth. Many of the spacecraft debris are accumulated at Point Nemo.

It is also known as the pole of inaccessibility.

Black and white Vision

Did you know that babies can only see white and black for first month of their birth ?

Yes babies can only see white and black for the 1st month. The reason that studies attribute to this phenomenon is that their retinal nerves are not fully developed.

Eiffel tower grows in summers

Have you ever heard of a non living thing growing?

Well, it does, the Eiffel tower grows in the summer season and can grow up to 6 ft. The reason is the iron expands in summers due to the heat.

The smallest dinosaur was 16 inches

Microraptor as the name suggests is the smallest dinosaur ever found. The fossil was discovered in China and it was estimated that at maximum microraptor would not have been bigger than 16 inches i.e equivalent to the size of the modern day pigeon.

Electricity generation from snow fall

Did you know that energy can be generated from snowfall ?

The scientists have developed a device called Triboelectric Nanogenerator or Snow TENG.

It is very thin and is very convenient to use. It can generate its own electricity and does not need any batteries of any sorts.