We study about science and history in high school but there are some amazing and impressive science and history facts that you probably never learned in school.
In no particular order, here you cand find some mind-blowing facts we bet you didn’t know:
- Polar bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras
- It takes 8 minutes, 19 seconds for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth
- Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise
- An individual blood cell takes about 20 to 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body
- Humans are the only species known to blush
- There are a million virus particles per millilitre of seawater
- A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
- There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body
- The African Elephant gestates for 22 months
- Sharks kill fewer than 10 people per year. Humans kill about 100 million sharks per year
- Azara’s owl monkeys are more monogamous than humans
- Around 5-8% of your DNA isn’t human – it’s viral DNA
- We share 96% of our DNA with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans
- Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing in 1969 that to the pyramid’s construction
- There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth
- Each person sheds 40 lbs of skin in his or her lifetime
- Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second – 86 million each day
- Human saliva contains a painkiller called opiorphin that is six times more powerful than morphine
- When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch
- Velociraptors were slightly bigger than chickens
- At over 2000 km long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth
- Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, 2 hours more than the sloth
- The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to thermal expansion
- The lining in a person’s stomach is replaced every 4 to 5 days to prevent it from digesting itself
- The fastest muscles in a human body are the ones that make the eyes blink. They can contract in less than one-hundredth of a second
- Of all the people in history that have reached 65 years of age, half of them are living right now
- Half of all humans who have ever lived have died from malaria
- More people in the world currently suffer from obesity than from hunger
- Goats have rectangular pupils
- There are more atoms in a single glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth
- You’re more likely to become the President than you are to win the lottery
- A contemporary calculator has 6 times more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon
- Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks per year
- Every human being shares 99% of their DNA with every other human
- Humans have the same amount of hair follicles per cm2 as a chimpanzee
- The cornea is the only part of the body with no blood supply – it gets its oxygen directly from the air
- Humans have a “diving reflex” that shuts down bodily functions when submerged in water to prevent drowning
- Men’s testicles hang below their bodies because sperm dies at body temperature
- Cornflakes have more genes than people do
- Every organ you have two of, you only need one of to survive
- Embryos develop fingerprints three months after conception
- Your ears and your nose never stop growing
- You can’t breathe and swallow at the same time