*DOUBLED FACTS* The Book of Random Facts

Part 7 - Science

#1 - 41 new species are discovered by scientists every single day.

#2 - The word "Scientist" first appeared in 1833.

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

#4 - In 2012, a 10-Year-Old accidentally created a new molecule in Science Class: Tetranitratoxycarbon.

#5 - "Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia" is the scientific term for brain freeze.

#6 - The average number of readers of any given published scientific paper is said to be 0.6.

#7 - A new scientific method called 'toxineering' turns venoms into painkillers.

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

#9 - Scientists can grow teeth from urine.

#10 - Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.

#11 - Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, so we can live without breathing.

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

#13 - The World's oldest known creature, a mollusc, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.

#14 - Earthquakes turn water into gold.

#15 - A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.

#16 - Eating salmon helps hair grow faster.

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

#18 - Rain contains vitamin B12.

#19 - Hot water can freeze faster than cold water, in some circumstances.

#20 - During photosynthesis, plants emit light that humans can't see.

#21 - Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.

#22 - If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.

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

#24 - You can start a fire with ice.

#25 - Researchers believe the first human case of HIV was in Kinshasa, Congo, around 1920.

#26 - The Big Bang Theory was actually first theorized by a Catholic priest.

#27 - There are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than body cells.

#28 - Ice melting in Antarctica has caused a small shift in gravity in the region.

#29 - Most dinosaurs are known from just a single tooth or bone.

#30 - There is more CO2 (carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere today than at any point in the last 800,000 years.