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Funny Facts - Science III
A boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight (120 feet/36 meters).
The light from your computer screen streams at you at almost 186,000 miles a second.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2nd, burns a gallon of diesel for each 6 inches that it moves.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Some large clouds store enough water for 500,000 showers.
Everyone is colourblind at birth.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Calculating DNA length for each person, it would stretch across the diameter of the solar system.
The dioxin 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin is 150,000 times deadlier than cyanide.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
Rain falls at 11 km/h.
It is impossible for a solar eclipse to last for more than 7 minutes 58 seconds.
Your skin weighs about 3.2 kg.
You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000 million miles.
Venus is the only planet in the solar system to spin backwards.
We lose half a litre of water a day through breathing.
10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria.
A boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight (120 feet/36 meters).
The light from your computer screen streams at you at almost 186,000 miles a second.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2nd, burns a gallon of diesel for each 6 inches that it moves.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Some large clouds store enough water for 500,000 showers.
Everyone is colourblind at birth.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Calculating DNA length for each person, it would stretch across the diameter of the solar system.
The dioxin 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin is 150,000 times deadlier than cyanide.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
Rain falls at 11 km/h.
It is impossible for a solar eclipse to last for more than 7 minutes 58 seconds.
Your skin weighs about 3.2 kg.
You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000 million miles.
Venus is the only planet in the solar system to spin backwards.
We lose half a litre of water a day through breathing.
10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria.
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