We used the 10,000 Science Facts app on our iPod Touches to find out interesting facts for Science Week. Here are some of the things that we found out:
- A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber
- Singapore means “City of Lions”
- A 1,200 pound horse eats about seven times its own weight each year
- A banana tree isn’t really a tree. It’s a herb.
- One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet
- Four million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and dung
- Egyptians invented the potter’s wheel, the scissors, toothpaste, the key the clock, metal pipes and the calendar
- 15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second
- By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the internet
- A dragonfly can fly at 25mph
- If a T-Rex tripped while running the fall could probably kill it
- Blood is such a good stain that native Americans used it for paint
- A baby echidna is called a puggle and is smaller than a jellybean
- A raisin dropped into a glass full of fresh champagne will bounce continuously up and down non-stop
- Archaeopteryx was a small creature with feathers that could fly and shows that birds are descended from dinosaurs
- Thomas Edison invented the Light Bulb and he was scared of the dark
- Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit, a total of 11 billion a year
- 107,000 is the number of gallons of water an average residence uses every year
- A snake can eat a deer in one bite and survive a year without eating
- Christopher Columbus introduced pineapples to Europe
- 15 million gallons of wine were destroyed during an earthquake in San Francisco in 1904
- A baby rabbit is called a kitten
- A baby oyster is called a spat
- A queen bee may lay as many as 3,000 eggs in a single day
- 10% of all human beings ever born are alive at this moment
- A litre of vinegar is heavier in winter than in summer
November 11, 2010
