20 Interesting scientific fact (PART 4)

1/ The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

2/ If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

3/ It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.

4/ There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

5/ The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.

6/ Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.

7/ Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.

8/...and now they are already past the Moon.

9/ Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.

10/ Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.

11/ The saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.

12/ Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

13/ Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

14/ Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second - 86 million each day.

15/ Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.

16/ One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

17/ Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.

18/ Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

19/ Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.

20/ The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.

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