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Scientific Bizzare Facts |
- There are about
5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left.
- One ragweed plant can
release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
- It takes 4,000 gallons
of fuel to get a jumbo jet off the ground.
- During a 24-hour
period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
- 100 People Killed In
U.S. Annually by lightning
- Rubber bands last
longer when refrigerated.
- A lump of pure gold the
size of a matchbox car can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis
court.
- A human with his/her
mouth glued to a hose, and nostrils shut, can absorb approximately eight
gallons of water before bursting.
- The microwave was
invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted
in his pocket.
- The smallest unit of
time is the yoctosecond.
- One tree can filter up
to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
- The amount of gold
dissolved in the oceans is nearly ten million tons, which is about 180 times
the total amount of gold dug in mines in the entire history of humanity.
- A normal raindrop falls
at about 7 miles per hour.
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