Science is both magical and practical. It allows you to understand what’s happening in your own body or even the entire universe. 🙂

We all love to learn new things! Please take a look at some collection of the most fascinating facts about the world around us.

Here are some interesting facts about science that you may not have known or would like to learn more about. These quick tidbits of information will be a great refresher for anyone interested in learning more about the fascinating world of science!

“Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction – in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.”

– Henrich Rohrer

1.Did you know that bacteria🧫 are responsible for 25% of our body weight? Did you also know that over half of all living things on earth are bacteria? Scientists have discovered a bacterium called Proteus–which looks like a long root–living in reservoirs underneath glaciers, when it was first discovered it has been called the “longest-living organism” on earth; it is estimated to be about 3.4 billion years old!

2.There are more than 1,000 species of bacteria to be found on earth.

3.Each person has around 100 trillion bacteria in their digestive system

4.The first animal to be discovered by a paleontologist was a turtle 🐢 called Eunotosaurus, which lived in the Cretaceous period (about 145 million years ago).

5.The first mammal to be described by a scientist was Amblyomma americanum, which lived in North America during the late Pleistocene period (about 1 million years ago).

6.The first fish to be discovered by a paleontologist was a shark 🐋 named Teeth, which lived in the Devonian period (about 480 million years ago).

7.The name “Einstein” was originally pronounced as “ay-zin”, but the German pronunciation had to be changed for people outside of Germany.

8.The Earth is not a perfect sphere, but an oblate spheroid.

9.The gravitational pull of the moon is responsible for ocean tides on Earth.

10.There are more atoms in a single glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans of the world combined.

11. Humans have 46 chromosomes while chickens have 78 and bees have only 16.

12. Diamonds are made up of nothing but pure carbon – the same element that makes up the lead in your pencil!

13. A human’s small intestine is about 22 feet long, but it can fit inside a shoe box when stretched out straight!

14. A lightning bolt⚡️ can reach temperatures five times hotter than those found on the surface of the sun! 🌞

15.Trees🏝 remove about 20 million tons of dust from the atmosphere every year!

16. Every year, the amount of solar energy that hits the Earth🌏 is greater than the total amount of energy consumed by humans in one year.

17. The Milky Way galaxy has over 200 billion stars, ⭐️and our Sun is just one of them.

18. The average human adult consists of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.

19.All living things on Earth share a common ancestor that lived 3.5 billion years ago.

20.Most of the oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere comes from tiny ocean plants known as phytoplankton. 🦠🦠

21.Light takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to Earth—that’s why we see sunlight 8 minutes after it’s made!😲

22. The Earth’s core is as hot as the surface of the sun.

23. The average human body contains around 0.2 milligrams of gold.😲

24. A single strand of human DNA🧬 is about two meters long if stretched out.

25. There are more than 1,000 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy alone.

26. 90% of the Earth’s ice🧊 is located in Antarctica, and over 80% of that is found in East Antarctica alone.

27. A lightning bolt can reach temperatures up to 30,000°C (54,000°F) – five times hotter than the sun’s surface temperature!

28. Every day, the Sun converts 600 million tons of its mass into energy – a process known as nuclear fusion.

29. Watermelons🍉 are actually considered to be both fruits and vegetables, because they contain seeds from a flowering plant and are eaten like a vegetable but have many attributes of a fruit, such as sweetness and color.

30 .The space between stars isn’t empty; it’s filled with gas and dust particles which we call “interstellar medium”.

31. The average human body contains enough carbon to produce over 9,000 pencils.

32. The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 134°F (57°C) in Death Valley, California in 1913.

33. Mars has the largest dust storms in the solar system which can last for months and cover the entire planet.

34. The distance between Earth and Moon is 238,855 miles (384,400 km).

35. A rainbow 🌈 is actually a full circle but we see only an arc due to the horizon being in the way of our view of it.

36. Scientists have estimated that there may be over 8 million species on Earth that haven’t been discovered yet.

37. Light travels at 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second).

38. The human brain can read up to 1,000 words per minute but can comprehend only about 40 words per minute when reading for understanding.

39. It takes around 8 minutes for sunlight to reach from the Sun to Earth’s surface.

40. If a star is more than 1 million times bigger than our Sun then it’s considered a supergiant star.

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