Fun Science Facts
The average cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds!
In just one day, the human brain generates more electrical impulses than all the telephones in the world combined.
If you stretched out all the DNA in your body, it would reach the moon and back more than 6,000 times!
The world’s largest living structure, the Great Barrier Reef, is visible from space.
The average lightning bolt is hotter than the surface of the Sun!
One teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about 6 billion tons.
A small amount of gold can be stretched into a thin wire long enough to reach across an entire football field!
Our eyes can distinguish about 10 million different colors.
A flea can jump more than 150 times its own body length.
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
The average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools.
The world’s largest flower, the rafflesia, can grow up to 3 feet in diameter and weigh up to 24 pounds.
A bolt of lightning can travel at speeds of up to 130,000 miles per hour.
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.
The world’s smallest mammal, the bumblebee bat, can fit on a single human fingertip.
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in their lifetime.
Fun Science Facts part 2
Water makes up about 60% of our body weight.
The sound you hear when cracking your knuckles is actually the sound of gas bubbles bursting.
A single sneeze can travel at speeds up to 100 miles per hour.
The largest dinosaur ever discovered, Argentinosaurus, was around 100 feet long and weighed up to 100 tons.
The human nose can remember up to 50,000 different scents.
The average person swallows about eight spiders in their sleep over the course of their lifetime.
The human body has enough carbon to make about 900 pencils.
Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth.
Every 24 hours, the Sun converts 4 million tons of its mass into energy.
The fastest known animal in the world, the peregrine falcon, can reach speeds of up to 240 miles per hour.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
The longest living species on Earth is the quahog clam, which can live up to 400 years.
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896 and lasted only 38 minutes.
The word nerd was first coined by Dr. Seuss in his book If I Ran the Zoo.
The human body contains enough iron to make a 3-inch nail.
The average person will spend about six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.
The scent of chocolate can increase brain theta waves, which trigger relaxation.
The highest ever recorded temperature on Earth was 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius) in Death Valley, California, USA.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
Astronauts cannot cry in space because there is no gravity to pull the tears down their faces.
The largest volcano in our solar system is on Mars and is called Olympus Mons. It is three times the height of Mount Everest.
A snail can sleep for up to three years.
The world’s largest mushroom, found in Oregon, USA, covers an area of about 2,200 acres.
The tongue is the fastest-healing part of the human body.
The average person blinks about 15 times per minute, which adds up to over 5.2 million blinks per year.
The human body contains enough carbon to fill about 9,000 pencils.
The world’s largest hailstone, which fell in Vivian, South Dakota, USA, in 2010, measured 8 inches in diameter and weighed nearly 2 pounds.