Scientific Factoids

More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.

Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
 
when walking on custard(use a swimming pool and have rescue available at the edge)you must walk constantly in order to keep the custard solid beneath your feet.if you stop walking then you will sink.any movement to stop the custard from drowning you will prove to be dangerous and will become solid .you may have to have bones or custard broken to be removed.

john tickle did it on brainiac science abuse as mentioned by porphiria..fabby:)
 
What is one horsepower? Answer: One horsepower is the amount of
energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.[/FONT]


The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million hemoglobin molecules.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]One third of Asian women are infected with TB. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A pinhead-sized piece of a neutron star weighs 1 million tons.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The research spacecraft Helios B came within a record 27 million miles of the Sun.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Volcanoes on Io eject material at speeds of 2000 mph.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A human heart beats 100,000 times a day.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp - and 70% with a slug. (well that explains alot, huh)[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]If the neurons from a single brain were divided out equally among the US population, each American would get approximately 366 brain cells.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Apart from humans the only land animal that cries is the elephant.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The chemical n-acetyl-cysteine found in raw eggs is proven to help hangovers.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet. [/FONT]
 
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Each year more snow falls in Australia than in the whole of the European Alps. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Women on the pill are 30% more likely to suffer from gum disease.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Alcohol lowers the level of the sex hormone testosterone in men but increases it in women. (now that REALLY explains alot)[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The silkworm moth has eleven brains. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]70% of the molecular structure in a tree is also human.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Desert rats can copulate 122 times an hour. (well go speedracer GO!)[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]At present even the most powerful PCs cannot process as many instructions as the .1gm of a goldfish brain. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Mosquitoes have been found to prefer biting people with smelly feet.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A full seven percent of the entire Irish Barley crop goes to the production of Guinness.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. (I full intend on testing this once the parental units retire for the evening).[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A bubble is round because the air within it presses equally against all its parts, thus causing all surfaces to be equidistant from its centre. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A "cold front" travels at a speed of about 30 miles per hour - faster then the fastest person can run - and may overtake any warm front ahead of it. The resulting mix of air is called an "occluded front".

[/FONT][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A green flash is sometimes seen just as the sun sets or rises. This occurs because green light is bent most strongly by the atmosphere. So the green is seen before other colors at sunrise, and after the other colors have vanished at sunset. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Use of less fertilizer at precisely the right times can cut costs by up to 17 percent for farmers in developing countries and reduce damage to the environment. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Blue Whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as three greyhound buses. [/FONT]
 
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Aspirin was discovered during experimentation with a waste product.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]There is no one who does not dream. Those who claim to have no dreams, laboratory tests have determined, simply forget their dreams more easily than others. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Rabbits cannot vomit.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The study of ants is called Myrmecology. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A chip of silicon a quarter inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make a tablespoon of honey.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. [/FONT]


A goldfish is the only animal that can see both infrared and ultraviolet light.


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The secret to balsa wood's lightness can only be seen with a microscope. The cells are big and very thinned walled, so that the ratio of solid matter to open space is as small as possible. Only about 40% of the volume of a piece of balsa is solid substance.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The average human brain consumes just 12 Watts of power - about one-tenth of what it takes to burn an ordinary light bulb.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]There are roughly 3500 hair cells and 30,000 nerve fibers found in the cochlea, a bony structure shaped like a snail's shell that's located deep within the inner ear. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]About one in every 2000 people automatically sees colors when hearing words, letters or numbers The vast majority (roughly 90 per cent) are female. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The speed of sound in water is approximately 1500 m/s while the speed of sound in air is approximately 340 m/s. Therefore, a 20 Hz sound in the water is 75 m long whereas a 20 Hz sound in air is 17 m long.[/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Research has shown that the sun impacts our productivity at work and school. [/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Workers in offices with constant sunlight and large windows have been shown to be both more efficient with their time and more accurate in completing their tasks. [/FONT]


[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The same is true in schools. Schools with more daylight saw their students outperform counterparts in darker schools by 5% to 15%.



[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Recycling all of your home's waste newsprint, cardboard, glass, and metal can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 850 pounds a year.



[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]If you take one pound of cobwebs and spread them out in one straight line, it will go around the earth 2 times.


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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]It typically takes twelve years and close to billion dollars to develop a new medicine. [/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Since perfume scent retains longer on oily skin, apply a layer of petroleum jelly (eg, Vaseline) onto your skin before putting on perfume.[/FONT]



Can anyone tell I was bored? Anyone? :smiley24: helluuuu lol
 
Interesting Human Body Facts That You Cannot Live Without !

-The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

-A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball

- It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

-One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).

- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

-The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

- The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.

- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

- If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

- Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair

-There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

- Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.

- Women blink twice as often as men.

-The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

- When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate. .
. . ..they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate!

- It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out, than it did to gain it.

-Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.

-Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

-The average woman is five inches shorter than the average man.
 
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