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The Sun is thought to have completed about 20 orbits during its lifetime and just 1/1250th of an orbit since the origin of humans.

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Viruses can get viruses.

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-40 degrees Fahrenheit is equal

to -40 degrees Celsius.

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Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the Sun.

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Every second, the Sun sends to earth 10 times more neutrinos than the number of people on earth.

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If you were to put Saturn in water, it would float.

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The moon is moving away from us by 3.78 cm (1.48 in) a year.

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100,000,000,000 solar neutrinos pass through every square centimeter of your body every second.

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If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.

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Gasoline is complex, as it can contain between 150 and 1,000 different chemical compounds.

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The average speed of Heinz Ketchup squirt is .028 MPH.

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The "smell of rain" is caused by a bacteria called actinomycetes.

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A worm's mind has been mapped and replicated by scientists into a software that's now inside a Lego robot.

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"Science" and "shit" both come from the ancient word "skheid," meaning to "separate" or "divide."

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Scientists have figured out how to "unboil" an egg.

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Before Bill Nye became "The Science Guy," he was a stand-up comedian.

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87% of scientists believe climate change is mostly caused by human activity while only 50% of the public does.

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Due to the new discovery of many brain parasites, scientist now think a Zombie Apocalypse is actually possible.

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Science Nobel Laureates, U.S. Presidents and NASA astronauts were found to be overwhelmingly first-borns.

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The Catholic Church considers the Theory of Evolution to be "virtually certain", and believes that intelligent design "isn't science even though it pretends to be."

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De-extinction is scientifically possible. Several viruses have already been brought back, including the 1918 flu pandemic virus.

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29,000 rubber ducks were lost at sea in 1992, and are still being found, revolutionising our knowledge of ocean science.

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When you donate your body to science, it can get used as a crash test dummy, for medical training, forensic research or to save a life through organ transplants.

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A physicist made his cat the co-author of his scientific paper to avoid replacing "we" with "I" throughout his paper.

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Famous science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov died as the result of an HIV infection from a blood transfusion given during triple-bypass heart surgery.

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The scientific name of the llama is "lama glama."

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The "Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge" is offered to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria. In 40 years, no one ever won.

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There have been serious scientific attempts to study whether or not our "reality" is, in fact, a computer simulation a la "The Matrix."

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Scientists have created glow-in-the-dark cats by inserting the jellyfish protein that codes for bioluminescence into their genome.

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The "cheerleader effect", the theory that girls look more attractive in groups, is scientifically proven.

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In 2013, two physicist managed to

"tie" water into knots.

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In middle school, 74% of girls express interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, but when choosing a college major, just 0.4% of high school girls select computer science.

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According to a study, up to 50% of the world's natural history specimens in museums are labeled incorrectly.

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Dinosaurs are not, technically, extinct, since birds are considered by science as a type of dinosaur.

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Scientists can identify individual zebras by "scanning" their stripes like a barcode.

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Scientists can locate colonies of Penguins from space just by looking for dark ice patches of penguin poop.

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There's a hotline filmmakers can call for science advice with the goal of helping filmmakers incorporate accurate science into their films .

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Scientists estimate that the moon's width has shrunk by about 600 feet (182 meters) since the rocky body first formed.

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Scientists have discovered that monkeys are susceptible to optical illusions, just like humans.

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In 2007, scientists in Spain found a tooth from a distant human ancestor that is more than 1 million years old.

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From 2020, all scientific publications on the results of publicly funded research in the European Union will be freely available.

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Researchers found that when jazz musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn on those that let self-expression flow.

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270 scientists re-ran 100 studies published in the top psychology journals in 2008. Only half the studies could be replicated successfully.

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Scientists have created a functioning guitar the size of a human blood cell.

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A scientist used magnetism to levitate a frog. Magnetic fields lightly distorts the orbits of electrons in the frog's atoms.

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70% of the time, ice from fast food restaurants was dirtier than toilet water.

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Most diamonds on the Earth's surface are between 1 and 3 billion years old.

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Naked mole-rats have a high resistance to cancer tumours because they produce an extremely high-molecular-mass hyaluronan and have ribosomes that produce extremely error-free proteins.

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Continents split up at the same speed finger nails grow.

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You can swim through syrup just as fast as you can swim through water, even though is many times thicker.

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The cost of sequencing a human genome went from US$100 million in 2007 to about US$3,000 in 2012.

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The longest-running experiment is the pitch drop experiment. A funnel holding a sample of tar pitch sealed in a glass jar shows how some substances that appear solid are actually liquid. It takes 10 years for a single drop to form.

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The gene that gives you six fingers is a dominant trait.

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Researchers say right-hand dominance in Neanderthals suggests that, like humans, they also had the capacity for language before they went extinct around 30,000 years ago.

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Dinosaurs didn't roar; they may have mumbled with their mouths shut, research suggests.

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Nobel prize winners in science are 22 times likelier than their peers to have performed as dancers, actors, or magicians.

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A physicist faced with a fine for running a stop sign in 2012 proved his innocence by publishing a mathematical paper. He even won a prize for his efforts.

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Genetic and archaeological evidence suggests there were two distinct dog populations in the world, one in the east and one in the west, during the Palaeolithic.

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Marie Curie is the only person to ever win Nobel prizes in two different areas of science.

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The historic news of the first manned powered flight by the Wright Brothers first appeared in the magazine Gleanings in Bee Culture.

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If you weighed 150 lb (68 kg) on Earth, you would weigh 4,200 lb (1,905 kg) on the Sun.

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Scientists alive today outnumber all the scientists who ever lived up to 1980.

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Velociraptors were no bigger than turkeys.

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If you weigh 150 lb (68 kg) on the Earth, you would weigh only 25 lb (11 kg) on the Moon.

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The African giant pouched rat can smell tuberculosis more accurately than most lab tests.

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If you weighed 150 lbs. (68 kg.) on Earth, you would weigh 351 lbs. (159 kg.) on Jupiter.

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Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.

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"The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of writer's block" is the shortest academic article ever: it has no words.

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An article that does not exist was cited in nearly 400 academic studies and scientific papers.

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Science knows more about coffee, wine and tomatoes than it does about breast milk.

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Science Facts 118 Facts about Science

Science Facts
118 Facts about Science