Fascinating Science Facts
The human brain can produce enough power to light up a small bulb.
Astronauts in space can grow several inches taller due to the absence of gravity.
Honey never spoils, which means archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in their lifetime.
It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from the Sun to Earth.
The human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.
The speed of sound is around 1,125 feet per second or 343 meters per second.
The brain releases the same amount of dopamine when we eat chocolate as it does when we fall in love.
Seeds from the sacred lotus flower can remain viable for up to 1,300 years.
The Sun is 330,330 times larger than Earth in terms of mass.
The average lightning bolt contains enough energy to power a 100-watt bulb for 3 months.
The first computer mouse was made of wood.
A single gram of DNA can store up to 215 petabytes (1 petabyte = 1 million gigabytes) of data.
The average cloud weighs about 1 million pounds.
Astronauts’ height can change again when they return from space as their spines compress in the astronaut’s absence of gravity.
The world’s smallest mammal, the bumblebee bat, can fit on the edge of a human thumb.
The human body generates enough heat in 30 minutes to boil half a gallon of water.
Fascinating Science Facts part 2
A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than the surface of the Sun.
The air you exhale in a single day contains enough carbon dioxide to fill 10 party balloons.
An octopus has three hearts.
The average human lifespan has increased by more than 30 years in the past century.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brothers’ first flight.
If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would reach the Moon.
Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans (7).
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.
The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors.
The Earth’s core is as hot as the surface of the Sun.
A teaspoon of a neutron star weighs about 6 billion tons.
The average person takes around 23,000 breaths per day.
The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
A single bolt of lightning can travel at speeds of up to 130,000 miles per hour.
Humans share about 50% of their DNA with bananas.
If two pieces of metal touch in space, they will bond and be permanently stuck together.
A single drop of blood contains around 10,000 white blood cells and 250 million red blood cells.
Honeybees can recognize human faces.
The human body produces enough heat in 30 minutes to boil a gallon of water.
Dolphins can recognize themselves in a mirror, which indicates self-awareness.
It takes about 17 muscles to smile and 43 muscles to frown.
The longest continuous time a person has been in space is 438 days.
Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, with surface temperatures reaching up to 900 degrees Fahrenheit.
Blue whales have the largest hearts of any animal, weighing around 1,300 pounds.
The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was -128.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
In 1883, a volcano eruption in Indonesia was so powerful that it caused a global temperature drop, resulting in the year 1888 being known as the year without a summer.
The fastest land animal, the cheetah, can go from 0 to 60 mph in just a few seconds.