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SCIENCE trivias!!!
- Kangaroos and Emus can't walk backwards.
- Butterflies taste food by standing on top of it! Their taste receptors are in their feet unlike humans who have most on their tongue.
- Most of the dust in your home is actually dead skin! Yuck!
- Although the Stegosaurus dinosaur was over 9 metres long, its brain was only the size of a walnut.
- Humans get a little taller in space because there is no gravity pushing down on them.
- Rabbits and parrots can see behind themselves without even moving their heads!
- A hippopotamus may seem huge but it can still run faster than a man.
- Even if an analog clock is broken, at least it shows the correct time twice a day.
- Sneezing with your eyes open is impossible.
- The trickiest tongue twister in the English language is apparently "Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick". Give it a try and see for yourself.
- The noise that is thunder is created when the air around lightning gets rapidly heated and expands at a rate faster than the speed of sound.
- Rather than putting on weight from eating celery you actually lose it, you burn more calories from the chewing than you put on from the food itself.
- Sound travels 4 times faster in water than it does through air.
- Cranberries can be tested for ripeness by bouncing them, if they are ripe they should have a bouncing quality.
- Travelling at 80 kilometres per hour, a car uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
- The largest living structure on Earth is the Great Barrier Reef. Found in Australia, it is over 2000 kilometres long.
- The QWERTY keyboard layout used on most computers was invented way back in the 1860's.
- Some types of bamboo can grow nearly a metre a day!
- Diamonds are the hardest known substance.
- Light from the sun can reach a depth of 80 metres in the ocean.
- When you crack a whip, it makes a loud noise because the tip is actually moving faster then the speed of sound!
