14782. Science Facts

The scientific name for a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth is arachibutyrophobia.

14783. Science Facts

If you fell into a black hole you would be stretched into an incredibly long, thin string in a process called ‘spaghettification'.

14784. Science Facts

Cells taken from the inside of baby teeth when they fall out have been grown and have reproduced in the laboratory. Put into the jaws of mice, they grow into soft teeth, with no hard enamel on the outside.

14785. Science Facts

Urine contains chemicals that we use in cleaning fluids and used to be used for cleaning things.

14786. Science Facts

Scientists investigating tumour growth added a gene from a firefly to make a glow-in-thedark tumour.The tumour is visible through the skin of a test animal, so scientists can see if it grows or shrinks.

14787. Science Facts

There are ‘banks' where the umbilical cords of new babies can be stored in case future medical developments make it possible to grow new organs or tissues from cells in them.

14788. Science Facts

A fear of worms is called scoleciphobia.

14789. Science Facts

There are over 20,000 road crashes involving kangaroos in Australia every year, so a robo-roo robotic test crash dummy like a kangaroo is used to test how badly cars will be damaged.

14790. Science Facts

In 1999, an artist in Chicago, USA, announced his plan to grow a glow-in-the-dark dog by adding a gene from jellyfish to it.

14791. Science Facts

Some animals respond to small amounts of poisonous gas and have been used as early warning systems. German soldiers kept cats in the trenches of the First World War to smell gas, and British miners kept budgies in cages because they died quickly if gas escaped into the mine.

14792. Science Facts

A person would need to weigh around 650 kilograms (1,433 pounds) to have enough fat to stop a bullet. Although their body would be bullet-proof, they could still be killed by a shot to the head.

14793. Science Facts

Scientists are working on a microscopic robotic tadpole to deliver medicines – the tadpole would ‘swim' through the patient's blood vessels to take the medicine where it's needed.

14794. Science Facts

Victorian children were often given their own salt cellar, which they were told was a sign of being grown up. In fact, the salt was mixed with bromide, which made them calmer and better behaved.

14795. Science Facts

Potatoes, aubergines, tomatoes and peppers all belong to the same family of plants as deadly nightshade!

14796. Science Facts

Not all dead bodies rot. In the right conditions, some of the fat can turn to a soap-like substance so that if the body is dug up, even years later, it can look much the same as when it was buried.

14797. Science Facts

Police scientists investigating a murder can work out how long a body has been dead by looking at the kinds of maggots, worms and insects that are eating it.

14798. Science Facts

Archaeologists find out about what people in the Stone Age ate by examining Stone Age faeces called coprolites.They have to be soaked in water for three days first to soften them.

14799. Science Facts

An unusual form of drug abuse is licking cane toads. They make a slime containing a drug which produces hallucinations (strange experiences or visions). People in some parts of Australia and the USA have started licking the toads to enjoy the drug.

14800. Science Facts

Fake mermaids made from bits of monkey and fish have been produced to fool scientists for years – most recently with one claimed to have been washed up by the tsunami in Asia in 2004. The oldest so-called mummified mermaid is 1,400 years old and from Japan.

14801. Science Facts

Australian Benjamin Drake Van Wissen invented machinery to mine guano on the Pacific island of Nauru and turn it into fertilizer.

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