11 Science Facts That Appear Extra Like Science Fiction

11 Science Facts That Appear Extra Like Science Fiction

eleven/28/2013 09:03 am ET
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Liat Kornowski Deputy Director of Development and Analytics, The Huffington Put up
In our hectic, mile-a-minute existences, it is easy to neglect simply how wonderful our world truly is.
Luckily, the authors of the newly revealed 1,227 Quite Attention-grabbing Information to Blow Your Socks Off have made it simple for us to slow down and savor some astonishing scientific details-about the whole lot from the our bodies we stay in to the planet that hosts us.
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The human mind takes in 11 million bits of information each second but is conscious of solely forty.
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Should you drilled a tunnel straight by means of the Earth and jumped in, it will take you precisely 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the opposite side.
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A medium-sized cumulus cloud weighs about the identical as 80 elephants.
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A single bolt of lightning accommodates enough vitality to cook 100,000 items of toast.
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Gorillas and potatoes have two more chromosomes than people do.
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Human saliva comprises a painkiller called opiorphin that is six times more powerful than morphine.
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In a mean lifetime, human pores and skin completely replaces itself 900 times.
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The air in a mean-sized room weighs about 100 pounds.
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A red blood cell can make a whole circuit of your body in 20 seconds.
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The strongest creatures on Earth are gonorrhea bacteria. They will pull 100,000 instances their own physique weight.
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