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= **Some Interesting Science Facts** =


 * The word "science" came from the Latin word for knowledge: scientia.
 * Not all animals on our planet have brains, for instance starfish and jellyfish do not have brains.
 * Many fish lay eggs but some give birth to their young alive. The guppy, molly and swordtail give birth to young alive.
 * Some sharks give birth to young alive while some lay eggs.
 * Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom plantae.
 * The part of the pineapple plant that we eat is a fruit.
 * Plants have different types of stem.
 * Do you know that fishes sleep opening their eyes.
 * The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
 * Human eyes are the same from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
 * Bulls are known to be colourblind. It’s a black-and-white life for them.
 * Tigers are the largest members of the cat family.
 * The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by the body.
 * Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children.
 * 100 years ago: The first virus was found in both plants and animals.
 * The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
 * It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
 * Your sense of smell is around 10000 times more sensitive than your sense of taste.
 * If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated , its thirst mechanism shuts off.
 * The jellyfish do not have eyes
 * [[image:/i/anchor.gif caption="Anchor"]]Rabbits can produce 20-40 babies in a year.
 * There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
 * Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.
 * **The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animals.**
 * ** A banana plant is actually a herb. It is not a tree. **
 * ** There are 62,000 miles ofblood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth2.5 times **
 * ** At over 2000 kilometerslong, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth **
 * **A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.**
 * Snakes have a small opening just behind the tongue called the glottis, which opens into the trachea,kor windpipe. Unlike what mammals have, the reptile glottis is always closed, forming a vertical slit, unless the snake takes a breath. A small piece of cartilage just inside the glottis vibrates when the snake forcefully expels air from its lungs. This produces a snake’s characteristic hiss.
 * %3h2> Different members of the salamander order have developed different ways of breathing. Sirens keep their gills all their lives, allowing them to breathe underwater. Others, such as the tiger salamander, lose their gills as they grow older and develop lungs to breathe air. But most, like the **arboreal salamander** //Aneides lugubris// and the **California slender salamander** //Batrachoseps attenuatus,// don’t have lungs or gills as adults. Commonly called lungless salamanders, they breathe through their skin and the thin membranes in the mouth and throat.
 * **In the moist rainforests of South America, sloths move so slowly that algae are able to grow in their fur. **
 * **The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (equal to 186,287.49 miles per second). ****It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth. ****10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment. ****The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph. ****Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.**

Cold weather makes fingernails grow faster. Snails can sleep up to 3 years. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. Pearls melt in vinegar. Turtles can breathe through their butt. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. Every year, over one million earthquakes shake the Earth. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts,

.The cow lets out the ammount of harmful methane gas, which can fill about 400-litter bottles in a single day, which is pollution. > Many dolphins will sleep with one eye open just below the surface of the water.~Wong Sin Set >
 * ** Polar Bears are capable of jumping as high as 6 feet and can run as fast as 25mph **
 * ** Mosquitos are attracted most to the color blue. **
 * ** A goldfish is the only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet light. **
 * ** A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. **
 * ** A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second **
 * ** Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer. **
 * ** Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. **
 * ** The Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of northeast Australia, is the biggest coral reef of all.It is more than 2000 km long - larger than the country of Italy. **
 * ** Some of the world's coral reefs are more than 50 million years old. **
 * ** People used to think that corals only lived in warm water in tropical parts of the world, but scientists have found types of coral that live in cold,deep water. **
 * ** Corals produce sexually, by spawning **
 * ** The biggest solar planet of the world can be found in California and it covers a total of 1,000 acres, with 9 solar thermal plants. **
 * ** The most used metal in the world today is iron. **
 * ** Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. **
 * ** Playtapus reproduce by eggs. **
 * ** A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside. **
 * ** There are more than 90 types of batteries all over the world. **
 * ** There are more than 90 types of batteries. **
 * ** Cats can see better in the dark than humans. **
 * There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times.
 * At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
 * The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years.
 * A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
 * A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs.
 * The average human with a full head of hair contains between 85,000 to 150,000 hairs.
 * An Earth day is not 24 hours long. It’s actually 23h, 56m, 4s which is the time that the planet needs to rotate on its own axis.~S Kugan
 * The heart pumps about 3,300 gallons of blood every day. ~ Chian Xintong
 * //** There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If they are laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times.~Song Jinhua **//
 * //** The capillaries in our body are so small as they are one cell thick. **//
 * An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body. ~ Lew Yee Ling
 * Although the Stegosaurus dinosaur was over 9 metres long, its brain was only the size of a walnut.~Ang Chun Xiang
 * The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life
 * Scientists have not been able to explain a 1998 study showing a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain’s sleep-wake clock.
 * Humans have 206 bones
 * =The most poisonous animal in the world is the poison dart frog. =