Chitika Ads

Amazing Facts

Google Ads

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Facts


1.     Hot water weighs less than cold water for a given volume.

2.     Zero point energy is a source of energy which is released when atoms stop moving, at -273 Celcius.

3.     We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the bottom of the ocean.

4.     Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

5.     A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

6.     About 70 percent of your body weight is water.

7.     Your muscles make up about one-half of your body weight.

8.     There are 206 bones in your skeleton.

9.     An adult human heart weighs about 10 ounces and beats over 100,000 times a day

10.    If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

11.    A cat's urine glows under a black light.

12.    It is impossible for a human to lick their elbow.

13.    If you have a car remote and you step out of its range, point it to your head and it will work again!

14.    The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

15.    The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.

16.    The typical laboratory mouse runs 2.5 miles per night on its treadmill.

17.    Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

18.    55% of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn.

19.    Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.


20.    One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.

21.    You can listen to thunder after lightning and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never mind.

22.    Talc is found on rocks and on babies.

23.    The law of gravity says "no fair jumping up without coming back down."

24.    When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.

25.    When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.