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The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world. A new born blue whale measures feet 6. The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in The Virginia opossum has a gestation period of only days. The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet 9. The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4, feet across and feet deep. The human eye blinks an average of 4,, times a year. Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in Thankfully most over the ocean.
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest. Human jaw muscles can generate a force of pounds The Skylab astronauts grew 1. Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls USA undermines the shale cliffs and as a result the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10, years. A large swarm of desert locusts Schistocerca gregaria can consume 20, tons 18,, kilograms of vegetation a day. The largest telescope in the world is currently being constructed in northern Chile. The telescope will utilize four - 26 ft.
The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons 10, kilograms , is 43 feet The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime. The largest flying animal was the pterosaur which lived 70 million years ago. This reptile had a wing span of feet The Atlantic Giant Squid's eye can be as large as The starfish species, Porcellanaster ivanovi , has been found to live in water as deep as 24, feet 7, meters.
The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach feet The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel central processor units. The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb.
The deepest part of the ocean is 35, feet 10, meters deep and occurs in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. At that depth the pressure is 18, pounds kilograms per square inch. The largest cave in the world the Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia is 2, feet meters long, feet meters wide, and more than feet 70 meters high. The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of F C. The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
The leg muscles of a locust are about times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle. The cosmos contains approximately 50,,, galaxies. There are between ,,, and 1,,,, stars in a normal galaxy. Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air. Scientists have discovered that copper pollution of the atmosphere occurred about years ago. This was discovered by analyzing ice cores from Greenland. The pollution was attributed to the Romans who used copper for military purposes and to produce coins. Hydrofluoric acid will dissolve glass.
In a full grown rye plant, the total length of roots may reach miles km. In a full grown rye plant, the total length of fine root hairs may reach miles 10, km. A large sunspot can last for about a week. If you could throw a snowball fast enough, it would totally vaporize when it hit a brick wall. Boron nitride BN is the second hardest substance known to man. The female Tarantula Hawk wasp paralyzes a large spider with her sting.
She then lays her eggs on the motionless body so that her developing young have a fresh supply of spider meat to feed on. The seeds of an Indian Lotus tree remain viable for to years. Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
October 10 is National Metric Day. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Super Glue was invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart. No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Knowledge is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty years time, will be discovered in those fifty years. According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes. The typewriter was invented in , and the automatic dishwasher in The wristwatch was invented in by Louis Cartier.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3, miles per hour. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world. Most gemstones contain several elements. Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man. Which of the 50 states has never had an earthquake? When hydrogen burns in the air, water is formed. Sterling silver contains 7. Cars were first made with ignition keys in B Dunlop was first to put air into tires.
Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two. It is energy-efficient to turn off a fluorescent light only if it will not be used again within an hour or more. This is because of the high voltage needed to turn it on, and the shortened life this high voltage causes. The Earth's equatorial circumference 40, km is greater than its polar circumference 40, km. Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead. The Earth's average velocity orbiting the sun is , km per hour. There is a high and low tide because of our moon and the Sun. Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
There is enough fuel in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive an average car four times around the world. The surface speed record on the moon is It was set with the lunar rover. If you could drive to the sun -- at 55 miles per hour -- it would take about years The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert. Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
A Boeing uses four thousand gallons of fuel in its take-off climb. The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.
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Since , more than 6, pieces of 'space junk' abandoned rocket and satellite parts have fallen out of orbit - many of these have hit the earth's surface. Every year in the US, people are struck by lightning. Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year. The rocket engine has to supply its own oxygen so it can burn its fuel in outer space. The North Atlantic gets 1 inch wider every year. The Earth weighs 6. The lowest temperature on Earth was Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of feet.
The average ocean floor is 12, feet. The temperature can be determined by counting the number of cricket chirps in fourteen seconds and adding House flies have a lifespan of two weeks.
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Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror. Starfish don't have brains. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. Shrimp's hearts are in their heads. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Porcupines float in water.