Interesting science facts you never heard of
Last Updated: Aug 16, 2013
Amazing Science Facts
There are many science facts which we have never heard of. These amazing science facts are a bit surprising but they are true. Let’s have a look over them.
- Science facts says that our lungs are known to be the lightest of all organs in the body.
Chameleon’s Tongue
- We have seen many chameleons but we never know this that their tongues are longer than their body.
- If anyone wants to grow taller, say by two inches, have a trip into space. According to science as there is no gravity, the spine becomes free to elongate up to two inches.
- 67000 miles per hour is the speed at which Earth is travelling across the sun. And guess what we are also moving at this speed.
Pumice stone floating in water
- Pumice is the only known rock which can float in water.
- 300 beats per minute is the pulse of a hedgehog. I wonder what the heartbeat rate is when hedgehog meets his girlfriend!
- It is known that human body has 206 bones .But as babies we are born with about 300 of them. As we age, some of bones fuse.
- A blue whale tongue is as heavy as an adult elephant and even bigger than a taxi cab.
- Genetically modified silk is stronger than steel.
Hypnotized chicken
- This is very interesting fact. All of us must try this. A chicken can be hypnotized, or put into a trace by holding its head down against the ground, and continuously drawing a line along the ground with a stick or a figure, starting at its beak and extending straight outward in front of the chicken.What a science wonder.
- People in Japan grow watermelons in glass cubes to force them into following square-shaped. These cubic melons are easier to store in refrigerators. The seeds from these melons still produce round watermelons, unless those too grow in cubes.
Watermelon grown in Japan
- Human tongue is the strongest muscles found in body.
- Acid present in stomach for digestion of food is so concentrated, that it can dissolve a razor blade.
- Looking at the sun can trigger a sneeze. Sneezing as a result of being exposed to a bright light is known a photic sneeze reflex.
- 60-65 million years ago dolphins and humans shared a common ancestor.
- Cows and horses sleep while standing up.
- Just because a snake has its eyes closed, don’t think it’s not still looking at you, they can see through their eyelids.
- While adults blink around 10 times a minute, infants blink only once or twice.
- Rabbits and parrots can see behind themselves without even moving their heads.
- Sneezing with our eyes open is impossible.
- Our sense of smell is 10000 times more sensitive than our sense of taste.
Butterfly
- Butterflies taste food by standing on the top of it. Their taste receptors are in their feet.
- The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
- Ants cannot chew their food; they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to extract the juices from food.
- A Zebra is white with black stripes.
- Sharks are immune to cancer.
- Ants do not sleep.
- A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.
Mosquito has 47 teeth
- A mosquito has 47 teeth.Interesting science fact.
- Houseflies have a lifespan of two weeks.
- Algae lamps which use 150 -200 times more CO2 than trees may soon light up the streets in future.A science fact which give us hope.
- If a cockroach touches a human it will run away to clean itself!So do not be afraid of cockroach.
- only 518 people have ever been to space.That’s 0.000000074%.
Facts about Dolphins
- A study published today found that dolphins have the ability to call out for lost loved ones when
separated using a specific whistle. This whistle seems to be the dolphin equivalent of a name, as it only ever refers to one individual.
- Spanish researchers have successfully cured type 1 diabetes in dogs using gene therapy.
- Live birth has evolved in more than 120 lizard and snake species, but never in any turtles. New research suggests this could be a result of female turtles tactics of delaying egg laying and even halting embryo development until conditions are optimal by restricting oxygen levels to eggs before laying.
- Random science fact: the fastest species of tiger beetle (Cicindela hudsoni) can run at a speed of 9 km/h (5.6 mph), which relative to its body length is the equivalent of a human running at 480 miles per hour (770 km/h).
- A new study may have solved the mystery of how homing pigeons find their way home. The new evidence suggests that the birds are able to create a mental “map” of their surroundings using low-frequency sound waves.What an interesting science fact about birds.
- Science fact about liver.Our liver performs more than 500 jobs within your body – and can continue to function if 75% of it is diseased or removed.
- A blue whale can’t even swallow a full human, they have filter feeders.
- Strange but true.A study published on Tuesday by biologists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute suggests that domestic cats kill up to 3.7 billion birds and 20.7 billion small mammals every year in the USA alone.
- The atlantic wolffish generate an antifreeze to keep their blood circulating in sub zero temperatures.A science fact that no one knows.
- This the most interesting science fact.During our lifetime,we will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
- A science fact is that brain is much more active at night than during day.
- A science fact is that Golf balls have dimples because they help to reduce drag.This allows the ball to fly further than a smooth ball would.
- The most wonderful science fact.Footprints and type tracks left behind by astronauts on moon will stay there forever as there is no wind to blow them away.So if we visit moon we can leave our footprints there forever.
- Because of lower gravity, a person who weighs 100 kg on earth would weigh 38 kg on surface of Mars.
- What a funny science fact brain itself cannot feel pain.
- Amazing science fact left side of our body is controlled by right side of our brain while right side of our body is controlled by left side of our brain.
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