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 (polyvinyl-chloride) 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 genetically-engineered 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. .\
he 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.
