Interesting science facts that you wonder

These are the most interesting fact of science that blow off your mind

1.      Light would take 13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

2.      If you drill a tunnel straight through the earth and jumped in, it would take you exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side.

3.      A single bolt of lightning contains energy enough to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.

4.      An average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in his lifetime.

5.      More germs are transferred while shaking hands than kissing.

6.      The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40.

7.      An average person accidentally eats about 430 bugs each year of their life.

8.      There are more living organisms on the skin of a human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

9.      Human saliva contains a painkiller called opiorphin that is six times more powerful than morphine.

10.  Girls have more taste buds than boys.

11.  Koalas sleep an average of 22hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

12.  A dog’s sense of smell is 1000 times more sensitive than a human.

13.  There is a waterfall in Minnesota called Devil’s Kettle where the water flows into a large hole made of rock. Several studies have been done and scientists still don’t know where the water ends up.

14.  In 1952, a European scientist released a bacterium into the wild which almost eradicated the continent’s rabbit population. There was a 90% reduction in france and 95% in the united kingdom.

15.  In 2009, scientists used cloning to bring back an extinct species. It lived for about 7 minutes before dying due to a lung defect.

16.  There is a cave of natural gas in Turkmenistan known as the “Door to Hell”. In 1971, Scientists lit the cave on fire on expecting it to burn for a few days. It’s still burning.