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Interesting Scientific Facts II
1.There are more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of the U.S.A. and Canada combined.
2.As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by your head!
3.Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year, because they used products made for right handed people.
4.An average woman consumes approximately 20 kg of lipstick in her life.
5.China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year and 25 million trees are chopped down to make them.
6.The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
7.Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops.
8.Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
9.The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal - other than man.
10.A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
11.It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
12.You are 3 times more likely to be killed by a flying champagne cork than you are to be killed by the bite of a venomous spider.
13.Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14.Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
15.Plants that are not cared for will cry for help, a thirsty plant will make a high-pitched sound that is too high for us to hear.
16.You use over 70 muscles to say one word.
17.Every year, you eat approximately 4 bugs in your sleep.
18.A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
19.Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
20.Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every single day.
21.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
22.Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. You have been warned!
23.Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
24.If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
25.It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
26.In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times.
27.Women hearts beat faster than men.
28.Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.
29.Wasps that feed on ferment occasionally get drunk and pass out (hahaha!)
30.It is the female lion who does more than 90 percent of the hunting, while the male is afraid to risk his life, or simply prefers to rest (lazy males
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2.As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by your head!
3.Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year, because they used products made for right handed people.
4.An average woman consumes approximately 20 kg of lipstick in her life.
5.China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year and 25 million trees are chopped down to make them.
6.The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
7.Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops.
8.Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
9.The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal - other than man.
10.A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
11.It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
12.You are 3 times more likely to be killed by a flying champagne cork than you are to be killed by the bite of a venomous spider.
13.Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14.Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
15.Plants that are not cared for will cry for help, a thirsty plant will make a high-pitched sound that is too high for us to hear.
16.You use over 70 muscles to say one word.
17.Every year, you eat approximately 4 bugs in your sleep.
18.A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
19.Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
20.Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every single day.
21.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
22.Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. You have been warned!
23.Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
24.If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
25.It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
26.In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times.
27.Women hearts beat faster than men.
28.Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.
29.Wasps that feed on ferment occasionally get drunk and pass out (hahaha!)
30.It is the female lion who does more than 90 percent of the hunting, while the male is afraid to risk his life, or simply prefers to rest (lazy males
)Holy cow!!!An American cow called Fawn was not afraid of flying. In May 1963, she was swept up by a tornado and carried half a mile, only to land safely in another farmer's field. Five years later, another tornado carried her over a bus. She survived this too, and lived to the ripe old age of 25.
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