Fun Facts – 09 July 2014

– Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

– Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

– Hot water is heavier than cold.

– If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

– Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

– A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

– At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.

– At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.

– On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

– Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

– Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.

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