cool facts
i will be giving cool facts about everything there is from space to cars and the ocean and much much more so i hope you like these cool facts that i have put together.
cool facts about space -
- did you know f you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one per second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
- If you shouted in space even if someone was right next to you they wouldn't be able to hear you.
- The first man-made satellite in space was called sputnik
- Earth has at least 4 moons.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- Uranus was originally called George’s Star.
- One Day on the planet Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth.
- If you put Saturn in water it would float.
- The moon is drifting away from Earth.
- The full cost of a spacesuit is about $11 million although 70% of this is for the backpack and the control module.
- If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
- The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds.
cool facts about the human body -
- The eyes receive approximately 90 percent of all our information, making us basically visual creatures.
- The female ovaries contain nearly half-a-million egg cells, yet only 400 or so will ever get the opportunity to create a new life.
- A foreskin, the size of a postage stamp.
- In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat to bring a half gallon of water to boil.
- Each kidney contains 1 million individual filters. They filter an average of around 1.3 liters of blood per minute.
- your brain uses 20% of the oxegene that enters through your bloodstream.
- 80% of your brain is made out of water.
- blondes have more hair.
- Each finger and toenail takes six months to grow from base to tip.
- A mans testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day – enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!
- a womens heart beats faster than a mans.
- 1 in 2000 newborn babys already have a tooth when they are born.
- babys are born with 300 bones but when they reach adulthood the number of bones is reduced to 206.
- the hardest bone in the human body is the jaw bone.
- you use 200 muscles to take one step.
- A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime.
- While there are so many cows grazing in the world, no two cows will ever be found with identical pattern of spots.
- A lion’s roar is so loud that it can heard upto a distance of five miles.
- Only the male Asian elephants have tusks.
- The male and female African elephants have tusks.
- The largest recorded jellyfish measured 2,3 m across its bell. Its tentacles measured 36 m.
- The largest giant squid ever found weighed 4 tons.
- Each species of grasshopper has its own song. This is important, as the varied species cannot breed with each other.
- Flying frogs change color in the day. They are greenish-blue in sunlight and green in the evening. At night there are black.
- The king Cobra can grow to the length of 5.5 m, and is regarded as the largest poisonous snake in the world. A tiny amount of its poison can kill up to 30 people.
- Bats eat all types of food. There is no restriction where their diet is concerned.
- The hippopotamus’s eyes, ears and nostrils are on the top of its head. This enables it to stand or sit, almost completely covered by water
- A crocodile can never stick its tongue out of its mouth.
- A headless cockroach can survive for a couple of weeks. Its life would finally end due to starvation.
- A coin is heavier than a hummingbird.
- The taste buds of a butterfly are in its feet.
- An ostrich’s brain is smaller than its eye.
