1. Word "Science" derives from Latin word scientia meaning knowledge.
2. Human need approximately 12 hours in order to entirely digest the food.
3. Brain cells are the longest living cells in our body, they can last for an entire lifetime.
5. Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system with surface temperature above 450 C.
6. If we are to believe scientists there are approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies "out there".
7. Sound travels 4 times faster in water than in air.
8. One of the most accidental discoveries was the one of microwave. This discovery happened after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
9. Kissing or shaking hands? In terms of germs be aware that more germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
10. Our moon is extremely dry, it is for instance one million times drier than the infamous Gobi Desert.
11. While cancer is perhaps the greatest disease of humanity, sharks do not have this problem as they are totally immune to cancer.
12. Surprisingly enough little mosquito has 47 teeth.
13. Ants are so hardworking that they even do not sleep.
14. In terms of rapid procreation rats lead the way since two rats can have after year and the half more than 1 million descendants.
15. Our fingernails are growing much faster than our toenails, about 4 times faster.
16. Talking about the hot stuff - The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.
17. Hurricanes cause havoc which is really no surprise since a typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.
18. Polar bears may look slow and fat, but they are in real life far from it since they can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air.
19. Mosquitoes like women more than men since they very much like smell of estrogen.
20. In case you have ever wondered why giraffes are such a quiet animals it is because they have no vocal chords to make any noise.
21. Interesting enough, Earth is the only planet in our solar system that hasn't been named after some Roman or Greek god.
22. Humans are not the only creatures on Earth that cry, elephants are crying creatures too.
23. Polar bears would make perfect thieves since they cannot be detected by infrared cameras because of their transparent fur.
24. Rats are really fast lovers, especially desert rats that can copulate 122 times an hour.
25. Snails are definitely among the sleepiest animals as they can sleep for three years.
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