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99 facts about science

1. The fastest speed achieved by current human spacecraft is 64,372 miles per hour.
2. Current unmanned rocket would take 70,000 years to reach the stars nearby.
   
3. In August 1992 Hurricane Andrew caused damage estimated at 26,000 million dollars and destroyed 60,000 homes.
   
4. Lightning can reach up to 48 km long and its thickness is less than 2.54 cm.
   
5. Lightning reaches a higher temperature than the surface of the sun (6000 ° C).
   
   
6. Scientists have discovered that dogs can smell the presence of autism in children.
   
7. dogs' alerts "attacks" can alert their owners up to an hour before the start of an epileptic seizure.
   
8. Diabetes affects 1 in every 16 people.
   
9. At any time of day, falls on Earth nearly two thousand rays because of thunderstorms.
   
10. males Kangaroos have a bifurcated penis.
    
11. rays move at a third the speed of light.
    
12. On average, the planes are at least a year by lightning impact.
    
13. At the core of the sun, every second 600 million tons of hydrogen are converted into helium.
    
14. The moon is 400 times closer to Earth than the sun, and is exactly 400 times smaller than this.
    
15. The most dangerous mode of transportation is the bicycle.
    
16. The safest form of transportation is the elevator.
    
17. Dolphins use echolocation to catch fish in total darkness.
    
18. propel a bike 100 calories for 4.8 km and a car for 85 meters.
    
19. Counting from the first fatal accident of a car (more than 100 years) to date, have killed 25 million people.
    
20. There are over 10,000 man-made objects with a size larger than a softball (circumference of 28 to 30.5 cm) orbiting the Earth.
    
21. Space debris travels through space at 29,000 km / h
22. Space Station International weighs about 500 tons and is the size of a football field.
    
23. The astronauts brought about 362 pounds of lunar rocks to Earth, most of which have not been analyzed.
    
24. TB is the biggest murderer of women overall.
    
25. One third of Asian women are infected with TB bacteria.
    
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26. Each cow emits about 47.6 kg of methane per year.
    
27. Hummingbirds consume the energy equivalent of half their body weight in food daily.
    
28. The Polyphemus moth larva consumes 86,000 times its weight at the time born during the first 56 days.
    
29. hook worms sucking blood live indoors than 700 million people throughout the world.
    
30. Some species of bamboo grow at a rate of 91.4 cm per day.
    
31. A total of 148 tornadoes swept the South and Midwest U.S. during April 1974.
    
32. A lunar eclipse of 1 hour and 47 minutes occurred on July 16, 2000.
    
33. Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.
    
34. A piece of a neutron star the size of a pinhead would weigh a million tons.
    
35. Star neutron whose diameter was of 24.1 km would weigh more than the sun.
36. The highest speed recorded by a train was 515.3 km / h, achieved by the French TGV.
    
37. The highest speed attained by a bicycle is of 268.6 km / h, achieved by Fred Rompelburg.
    
38. Helio Probe B research approached the sun in the distance record of 43.45 million miles.
    
39. is believed that 65 million years ago, an asteroid impact released energy equivalent to 10 million H-bombs
    
40. estimated the temperature in the center of the Earth is 5,500 degrees Celsius.
    
41. Today more than 4,000 satellites orbiting our planet.
    
42. Between 1895 and 1905 the millionaire Andrew Carnegie spent $ 25 million in fossil collecting trips throughout the U.S.
    
43. The giraffe can clean its ears with its tongue, which measures half a meter.
    
44. We almost 6.35 mm higher at night when we sleep, that day.
    
45. In the U.S. There are over 1,250 million rats.
    
46. A female fetus 5 months old has seven million eggs in her ovaries. When you reach puberty only 300,000 remain.
    
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47. Humans produce 100 million sperm every day.
    
48. A ray has so much energy to light two and half million households.
    
49. The probability of being struck by lightning is about one in three million.
    
50. resist Camels 17 days without drink in extreme heat.
    
51. Tornadoes can reach speeds above 483 km / h.
    
52. The area of \u200b\u200bTornado Alley in the U.S. is hit by about 1000 tornadoes a year.
    
53. A single ray can deliver 1 million watts of electricity.
    
54. The 10 highest mountains in the world are in the Himalayas.
    
55. In 1862, the English chemist Alexander Parkes created the first plastic.
    
56. The human body has more than 1,000 different enzymes.
    
57. In 1811, Amedeo Avogadro distinguished first molecules from atoms.
    
58. Each speck of dust contains a million million atoms.
    
59. Protons are 1,836 times heavier than electrons.
    
60. Mercury can only be seen from Earth at sunset.
    
61. The Atlantic Ocean is expanding every year 3 cms. in width.
    
62. The jump of a cat flea can reach a height of 34 cm.
    
63. A poisonous frog species Colombian adult "Dardo Dorado" has so many toxins to kill 1,000 people.
    
64. Spiders can survive without food for weeks.
    
65. Earthworms have five pairs of hearts in front of their bodies.
    
66. Throughout his life, a human heart pumping as much blood as to fill 100 swimming pools.
    
67. A dragonfly can see insects moving at a distance of 10.05 meters.
    
68. The first credit card was issued in 1951 when the prepared Diners Club card to 200 customers who could be used in 27 restaurants in New York.
    
69. The first weather map was issued by the BBC in Britain on November 11, 1936.
    
70. Venus is so bright because of its thick layer of cloud, reflecting the sun.
    
71. A conifer grows and flourishes as male and female.
    
72. The palm talipot takes 100 years to bloom, and then dies.
    
73. The giant African land snail can reach a length of 39.11 cm from head to tail.
    
74. hydroelectric plants supply 3% of the world's energy needs.
    
75. The Millennium Dome British doubled in size to any others.
    
76. Three planets orbit the star Upsilon Andromedae, 44 light years away.
    
77. For short bursts, a wolf can run at 64.37 km / h.
    
78. Gray wolves became extinct in England in 1486.
    
79. At 85 years a man will have walked 160,930 km
    
80. human bones stop growing at the approximate age of 21.
    
81. The Mount Rainier volcano erupts about every 500 years.
    
82. In our galaxy, the Milky Way, there are over 100,000 million stars.
    
83. Scientists have discovered over 400 planets outside our solar system.
    
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84. organisms can survive in temperatures up to 133 º C. There
85. clear geological evidence of past existence of water on Mars.
86. NASA missions sent to Mars in 2003 and 2005 to take rock samples.
87. on Earth living organisms can be found even at 3.2 km deep under the ground.
88. Europa, Jupiter's moon is completely covered with ice. We can manufacture
89. lighting lasers a million times brighter than the sunshine.
90. Babies conceived through IVF are more likely to die during childhood.
91. The surface of Mars is the same as the area of \u200b\u200bthe continents of the Earth.
92. The average life of a vehicle in the U.S. is 5.6 years.
93. On May 3, 1999 an outbreak of 76 tornadoes struck Oklahoma and Kansas with winds that reached speeds of up to 511.75 km / h.
94. Jumbo planes have transported the equivalent of 1.6 million passengers to the moon and back. The
95. volcanoes on Io eject material at speeds of 3218.6 km / h.
96. The sun takes approximately 220 million years to complete one revolution around the Milky Way.
97. A human heart beats 100,000 times a day.
98. Each heart pumps with each beat of 0.43 liters of blood.
99. The first bicycle was made in 1817.