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Science Facts

- The word "scientist" first appeared in 1833.

- Scientists finally concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes egg shells is only produced by hens.

- 41 new species are discovered by scientists everyday.

- "Sphenopalatine Gangalioneuralgia" is the scientific term for brain freeze.

- Scientists have developed a way of charging mobile phones using urine.

- Scientists can grow teeth from urine.

- Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamaonds.

- Four Japanese scientists measured the amount of friction between a shoe, a banana skin and the floor: It's 0.07

- The world's oldest known creature, a mollusc was 507 yrs. old until scientists killed it by mistake.

- Earthquakes turn water into gold.

- A bolt of lightning is 57 times hotter than the surface of the sun.

- Eating salmon helps hair grow faster.

- It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.

- Rain contains Vitamin B12.

- Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.

- Every time a woodpecker hits a tree, it's head is subject to 1,000 times the force of gravity.

- You can start a fire with ice. ( Ewan ko lang kung totoo..hehe)

- There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than any point in the last 800,000 years.

- Bees can be trained to detect bombs.

- A day on venus is longer than its year.

- Each foot contains about 250,000 sweat glands.

- The summer in Uranus is 42 years.

- Viruses can get viruses.

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

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

- Scientists have figured out how to unboil an egg.

- Due to the new discovery of many brain parasites, scientists now think a zombie apocalypse is actually possible.