MUST SHARE IT Did you know....???? 1. Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs. 2. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level. 3. One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea. 4. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler. 5. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953. 6. The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997. 7. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo. 8. Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250. 9. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866. 10. Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895. 11. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall. 12. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days. 13. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight. 14. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts. 15. ‘Wireless’ communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals. 16. The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC. 17. The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects. 18. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant. 19. Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down. 20. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. 21. Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself. 22. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200. 23. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. 24. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body. 25. Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars. 26. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute. 27. The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature. 28. The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away. 29. Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime. 30. At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet. 31. The largest galaxies contain a million, million stars. 32. The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
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