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Very curious scientific facts that you never even imagined. Meet them all in this article.
01. The speed of light, usually rounded at 300,000 km / s, is exactly 299,792.458 m / s.
02. It takes 8 minutes and 17 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth surface.
03. 10% of all human beings ever born are alive at this moment.
04. The earth rotates at 1600 km / h, but travels in its orbit around the sun to more than 107,000 km / h.
05. Every year, over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
06. Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
07. Every year, 1,000 people die from lightning.
08. If you could drive your car vertically, straight up, it would take only an hour to reach space (somewhere around 65 km).
09. The tapeworm, a worm that can live in the human digestive system, can reach almost 23 meters long.
10. The Earth is about 4.56 billion years old, the same age of the moon and the sun.
11. The black widow spiders eat the male after mating.
12. When a flea jumps, the acceleration to which it submits comes to 20 times that of a space shuttle during launch.
13. If the sun had just one centimeter in diameter, the nearest star would be 285 kilometers away.
14. Astronauts can not belch in space - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
15. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, at 8850 meters high, only a third density which has the sea level.
16. The DNA was discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
17. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined in 1953 by Watson and Crick.
18. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo Galilei.19.
19. In October 1999 a London size of the iceberg broke free from the Antarctic continent.
20. Alfred Nobel, father of the famous prize, invented and made his fortune with dynamite in 1866.
21. The largest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus, which in 1872 had just over 130 meters tall.
22. Christian Barnard did the first heart transplant in 1967, the patient lived for 18 days with the new organ.
23. An electric eel can produce a shock of 650 volts.
24. Wireless communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and television signals.
25. Giraffes sleep for only twenty minutes a day. Eventually, they can sleep up to 2 hours a day, but never all at once, always in small naps.
26. The human body has more than 96,000 kilometers of blood vessels.
27. A blood cell takes only 60 seconds to make a complete circuit through the body.
28. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for a minute in his honor.
29. The Universe contains over 10 billion galaxies.
30. When placing larvae on wounds, heal more quickly and without risk of infections or gragrenas.
31. More germs are transferred in a handshake that in a kiss.
32. The fastest speed at which the rain falls are 29 km / h.
33. Every hour, the universe expands 1.6 billion kilometers (one billion kilometers in each direction).
34. Even traveling at the speed of light, it would take two million years to go from Earth to the nearest galaxy, Andromeda.
35. The low frequency call made by the humpback whale is the loudest sound produced by a living being.
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