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2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The blood vessels in human body would reach about 60,000 miles if laid end to end.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Half of body’s red blood cells are replaced every seven days.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0A common bacterium, E. Coli, found in the intestine, helps us digest green vegetables and beans. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 These same bacteria also make vitamin K, which causes blood to clot.<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0A human’s small intestine is 6 meters long.<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The human body is 75% water.<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it’s hollow!<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tongue has 3,000 taste buds.<\/p>\n
10.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Sun is over 300,000 times larger than the earth.<\/p>\n
11.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Halley’s Comet was last seen in the inner Solar System in 1986, it will be visible again from Earth sometime in 2061.<\/p>\n
12.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system with a surface temperature of over 450 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n
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13.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Saturn isn’t the only ringed planet, other gas giants such as Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune also have rings; they are just less obvious.<\/p>\n
14.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0In 2006, astronomers changed the definition of a planet. This means that Pluto is now referred to as a dwarf planet.<\/p>\n
15.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Because of lower gravity, a person who weighs 200 pounds on earth would only weigh 76 pounds on the surface of Mars.<\/p>\n
16.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The only planet that rotates on its side like a barrel is Uranus. The only planet that spins backwards relative to the others is Venus.<\/p>\n
17.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The first manmade object sent into space was in 1957 when the Russian satellite named Sputnik was launched.<\/p>\n
18.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0It is because of the Sun’s and Moon’s gravity that we have high & low tides.<\/p>\n
19.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Hydrogen is the first element on the periodic table. It has an atomic number of 1.
\nIt is highly flammable and is the most common element found in our universe.<\/p>\n
20.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Around 1% of the sun’s mass is oxygen.<\/p>\n
21.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Helium is lighter than the air around us so it floats, that’s why it is perfect for the balloons.<\/p>\n
22.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Carbon comes in a number of different forms (allotropes), these include diamond, graphite and impure forms such as coal.<\/p>\n
23.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Under normal conditions, oil and water do not mix.<\/p>\n
24.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Things invisible to the human eye can often be seen under UV light, which comes in handy for both scientists and detectives.<\/p>\n
25.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Chemical reactions occur all the time, including through everyday activities such as cooking.<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Above 4\u00b0C, water expands when heated and contracts when cooled. But between 4\u00b0C and 0\u00b0C it does the opposite, contracting when heated and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 expanding when cooled. Stronger hydrogen and oxygen bonds are formed as the water crystallizes into ice. By the time it’s frozen, it takes up around 9% more space.<\/p>\n
27.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The highest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica is 14.6\u00b0C (59\u00b0F), recorded on January 5, 1974.<\/p>\n
28.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The most rainfall ever recorded in one year is 25.4 metres (1000 inches) in Cherrapunji, India.<\/p>\n
29.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The highest snowfall ever recorded in a one-year period was 31.1 metres (1224 inches) in Mount Rainier, Washington State, United States, between\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 February 19, 1971 and February 18, 1972.<\/p>\n
30.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Earth experiences millions of lightning storms every year; they are incredible discharges of electricity from the atmosphere that can reach temperatures close to 54,000\u00b0F (30,000\u00b0C) and speeds of 60,000 m\/s (130,000 mph).<\/p>\n
31.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The word ‘nuclear’ is related to the nucleus of an atom, it is often used to describe the energy produced when a nucleus is split (fission) or joined with another (fusion).<\/p>\n
32.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The nucleus is positively charged and found at the central core of an atom.<\/p>\n
33.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nuclear power provides around 14% of the world’s electricity.<\/p>\n
34.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While many nuclear weapons have been used in testing, only 2 have been used as part of warfare. In August 1945, near the end of World War 2, the United States used atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading to the death of approximately 200000 people.<\/p>\n
35.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Enriched uranium is a crucial element of both nuclear weapons and nuclear power production.<\/p>\n
36.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Energy from food is usually measured in joules or calories.<\/p>\n
37.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Light from the Earth takes just 1.255 seconds to reach the Moon.<\/p>\n
38.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sound travels at a speed of around 767 miles per hour (1,230 kilometres per hour).<\/p>\n
39.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A magnifying glass uses the properties of a convex shaped lens to magnify an image, making it easier to see.<\/p>\n
40.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics was won by Albert Einstein for his work in the field of theoretical physics.<\/p>\n
41.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Most types of energy are either a form of kinetic energy or potential energy.<\/p>\n
42.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Energy can be transformed from one form to another. In lightning, electric potential energy transforms into light, heat and sound energy.<\/p>\n
43.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The law of conservation of energy states that energy can only be transformed, it can’t be created or destroyed.<\/p>\n
44.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Food contains chemical energy which is used by living organisms such as animals to grow and reproduce.<\/p>\n
45.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Plants use energy from sunlight during an important process called photosynthesis.<\/p>\n
46.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During chemical reactions, chemical energy is often transformed into light or heat.<\/p>\n
47.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Higgs Boson or Higgs particle, an elemen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tary particle, was initially theorised in 1964.<\/p>\n
48.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On 4 July 2012, it was announced that a previously unknown particle with a mass between 125 and 127 GeV\/c2 (134.2 and 136.3 amu) had been detected<\/p>\n
49.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Higgs boson is named after Peter Higgs, one of six physicists who, in 1964, proposed the mechanism that suggested the existence of such a particle.<\/p>\n
50.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 1967, Steven Weinberg and Dr Abdus Salam independently showed how a Higgs mechanism could be used to break the electroweak symmetry of Sheldon Glashow’s unified model for the weak and electromagnetic interactions, forming what became the Standard Model of particle physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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