Fun Facts – 21 July 2015

Do you love trivia? Here are a collection of some fun science facts – have fun dropping them into conversation!

– A dog has the same ecological footprint as two Toyota Landcruisers; a cat the same environmental effect as a Volkswagen Golf; two hamsters the same as a plasma TV.

– In 1251, Henry III was given a polar bear by the king of Norway. He kept it in the Tower of London, on a long chain so that it could swim in the Thames.

– If all the LEGO bricks ever manufactured were clipped on top of one another, they would make a tower ten times as high as the distance to the Moon.

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

– A medium-sized cumulus cloud weighs about the same as 80 elephants.

– A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.

– There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean.

– More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

– The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40.- A red blood cell can make a complete circuit of your body in 20 seconds.

Courtesy of urbantimes.com