139. Fact

The largest flying animal was the pterosaur which lived 70 million years ago. This reptile had a wing span of 36-39 feet (11-11.9 meters) and weighed 190-250 pounds (86-113.5 kilograms).

140. Fact

The atlantic giant squid's eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide.

141. Fact

Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.

142. Fact

The starfish species, porcellanaster ivanovi, has been found to live in water as deep as 24,881 feet (7,584 meters).

143. Fact

The tentacles of the giant arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.

144. Fact

The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the bay of fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).

145. Fact

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.

146. Fact

The most powerful laser in the world, the nova laser at lawrence livermore national laboratory, ca, usa, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand.

147. Fact

The fastest computer in the world is the cray y-mp c90 supercomputer. It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel central processor units.

148. Fact

The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).

149. Fact

The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) deep and occurs in the mariana trench in the pacific ocean. At that depth the pressure is 18,000 pounds (9172 kilograms) per square inch.

150. Fact

The largest cave in the world (the sarawak chamber in malaysia) is 2,300 feet (701 meters) long, 980 feet (299 meters) wide, and more than 230 feet (70 meters) high.

151. Fact

The hottest planet in the solar system is venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 f (462 c).

152. Fact

The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

153. Fact

The first electronic digital computer (called eniac - the electronic numerical integrator and calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.

154. Fact

The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.

155. Fact

The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.

156. Fact

There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.

157. Fact

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

158. Fact

Scientists have discovered that copper pollution of the atmosphere occurred about 2500 years ago.dis was discovered by analyzing ice cores from greenland the pollution was attributed to the romans who used copper for military purposes n to produce coins.

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