Science

From the time you are conceived to the time that you die your ears and nose never stop growing

At the equator the degree of latitude is 0

The sun contains almost 99 percent of our galaxy's mass

Your eye balls stay the same size from the time you were born till you die

Greenland is the world's largest island

The average 9th grader can withstand 120 volts of electicity

Your eye drains tears into your nose

If Earth was the size of a peach, its crust would be as thin as the peach's skin

The Northern Hemisphere has twice as much land as the Southern Hemisphere

The lowest point on the continental United States is not the Grand Canyon but is located in Death Valley

Your nails grow faster at night

Meteors are a comet's dust falling through Earth's atmosphere

As air cools, it shrinks

For all those living in California your great great great great great great great great ect. grand children could drift away from the United States, for in 250 million years the San Andreas fault will split

The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old

The tail of a comet always points away from the Sun

Mercury is the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature

All newborn baby's skeletons are made of cartilage but then later harden in to bone

Sounds travel better through solids than they do through air

No one has ever been to a black hole

There are mountains on the moon

The Earth takes exactly 365 days and 6 hours to orbit the Sun

The rights side of the brain controls the left side of the body

Hiccups are caused by spasms in your diaphragm

When empty your bladder is about the size of a walnut

All cats have 32 muscles in each ear

You cannot stop yourself from blinking

Peanuts is one of the ingredients of dynamite

400 people are killed a year by hippo's

The movement of a body reacting to a bullet is proportional to the kickback of the weapon it's fired from

Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them

Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains

All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines

Ethernet is a registered trademork of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T

The first had drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 megabytes

In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes

The world "pixel" is a contraction of either "picture cell" or "picture element"

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns are radioactive so much so, that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean

The word byte is a contraction of by eight

The only planet without a ring is Earth

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket

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