- Shrimp’s hearts are in their heads!
- Caterpillars have more than 2000 muscles in their bodies. Humans have less than 700!
- The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. If placed in water it will float!
- 70% of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin!
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A bolt of lightning is about 30,000 degrees Celsius; 6 times hotter than the sun!
- There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth!
- It is possible to make a positive identification of a cow by taking a ‘fingerprint’ of its nose!
- The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert!
- According to the scientific scale used to measure hardness, a shark’s tooth is literally as hard as steel.
- When biting, a medium size shark is capable of exerting a pressure of over 40,000 pounds per square inch , which is roughly about the same as having 4 large elephants in hobnail boots standing on your big toe.
- A species of birds called woodpeckers knock on wood with their strong beaks in search of grubs. At full speed a Woodpecker can knock on wood at a rate of 15 times per second! To do this the birds head must move at a speed of 200km/hour - this is more than twice the speed of a bullet.
- The average human body contains a number of elements and one of those is Gold! In one human there is enough iron to make a 7.6cm nail and there is enough carbon to fill 900 pencils. But what about the Gold? To make a 3 gram 18 carat gold wedding ring , you would need the gold from 316 people! Feel a fever coming on? Extract the mercury from the bodies of 40 people and you will have enough to make your own thermometer.