DID YOU
KNOW FACTS Did you know that there are
206 bones in the adult
human body and there are 300 in children (as they
grow some of the bones fuse together).
Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own
height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft.
person
jumping 780 ft. into the air.
The most dangerous animal in the world is the
common housefly. Because of their habits of
visiting
animal waste, they transmit more diseases than
any
other animal.
Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat
nothing but other animals. They do not eat any
type
of plant material.
The world's largest amphibian is the giant
salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
100 years ago: The first virus was found in both
plants and animals.
90 years ago: The Grand Canyon became a national
monument & Cellophane is invented.
80 years ago: The food mixer and the domestic
refrigerator were invented.
70 years ago: The teletype and PVC
(polyvinylchloride) were invented.
60 years ago: Otto Hahn discovered nuclear
fission by
splitting uranium, Teflon was invented.
50 years ago: Velcro was invented.
40 years ago: An all-female population of lizards
was
discovered in Armenia.
30 years ago: The computer mouse was invented.
20 years ago: First test-tube baby born in
England,
Pluto’s moon, Charon, discovered.
10 years ago: First patent for a
geneticallyengineered mouse was issued to Harvard Medical
School.
5 years ago: The first successful cloning of
human
embryo
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes
or
stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is
approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
The longest cells in the human body are the motor
neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters)
long and run from the lower spinal cord to the
big
toe.
There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188
decibels. This is
the loudest sound produced by a
living animal and has been detected as far away
as
530 miles.
The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead,
created by Hoover Dam.
The poison arrow frogs of South and Central
America
are the most poisonous animals in the world.
A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0 -
7.9
meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003
kg).
The first coast-to-coast telephone line was
established in 1914.
The Virginia opossum has a gestation period of
only
12-13 days.
The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet
(9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a
walnut.
The largest meteorite crater in the world is in
Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150
feet
deep.
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000
times
a year.
Skylab, the first American space station, fell to
the
earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully
most
over the ocean.
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to
entirely
digest.
Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200
pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.
The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8
-5.7 centimeters) due to spinal
lengthening and
straightening as a result of zero gravity.
An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is
equivalent
to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery
snow.
Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls
(USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result
the
falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the
last 10,000 years.
40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through
the
head (no hat) as a result of its extensive
circulatory
network.
A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca
gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000
kilograms) of vegetation a day.
The largest telescope in the world is currently
being
constructed in northern Chile. The telescope will
utilize four - 26 ft. 8 in. (8.13 meters) mirrors
which
will gather as much light as a single 52 ft. 6
in. (16
meters) mirror.
The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896
kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and
cost
$2.1 billion to originally build.
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells
which can live an entire lifetime.
The largest flying animal was the pterosaur which
lived 70 million years ago. This reptile had a
wing
span of 36-39 feet (11-11.9 meters) and weighed
190-250 pounds (86-113.5 kilograms).
The Atlantic Giant Squid's eye can be as large as
15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide.
Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80%
of their lives sleeping.
The starfish species, Porcellanaster ivanovi , has been
found to live in water as deep as 24,881 feet
(7,584
meters).
The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can
reach
120 feet
(36.6 meters) in length.
REFERENCE:HIGHTECHSCIENCE.ORG
