14825. Science Facts

If you fall off a very high cliff or building, the fastest speed you will ever fall at is around 200 kilometres (124 miles) per hour.This is called terminal velocity, and it's enough to make a nasty splat.

14826. Science Facts

Bird droppings are the main export of the island Nauru in the western Pacific Ocean.They're used for fertilizer, as they're rich in the chemical nitrogen.

14827. Science Facts

Horses killed in the First World War were recycled as explosives – their fat was removed and boiled down to be used in making TNT.

14828. Science Facts

Scientists believe that all vertebrates (animals with backbones) evolved from giant tadpoles, 6 centimetres (2.5 inches) long, that swam around 550 million years ago.

14829. Science Facts

Some wealthy people have their bodies cryopreserved (deep-frozen) when they die, in the hope that in the future someone will find a cure for their cause of death and resurrect them.The popular urban legend that Walt Disney was cryopreserved is false; he was cremated.

14830. Science Facts

If potatoes were discovered today, they would probably be banned under European Union regulations as too dangerous.

14831. Science Facts

The chemical phosphorous was discovered by German chemist Hening Brandt in 1669. He made it by leaving urine to rot and then heating it until the liquid evaporated.

14832. Science Facts

A man who experimented with feeding a Venus flytrap – a type of flesh-eating plant – with bits of his own flesh found the plant could digest it easily. He used bits of his toes that had rotted and dropped off as a result of athlete's foot.

14833. Science Facts

It is so cold in space, that urine flushed out of a space craft instantly freezes into a stream of yellow crystals.

14834. Science Facts

There are 100 million times more insects than people on earth and their total weight is 12 times the total weight of people.

14835. Science Facts

In an emergency, coconut milk can be used as substitute for the watery part of blood in a blood transfusion.

14836. Science Facts

Japanese scientists have managed to grow tadpole eyes from scratch in the laboratory. They transplanted the eyes into tadpoles. The eyes worked even after the tadpoles changed into frogs.

14837. Science Facts

The average bed is home to 6 million dust mites.

14838. Science Facts

Lined up neatly, 10,000 bacteria would stretch across your thumbnail.

14839. Science Facts

Ergot is fungus that grows on rye and causes people to act as though mad if they eat it. Some historians think that people accused of witchcraft who said they could fly, or those who accused others of strange, magical behaviour, may have had ergot poisoning.

14840. Science Facts

The Masai tribe in Africa drink cow or bull urine as a sedative (drug to calm people down or make them sleepy).

14841. Science Facts

There is a cockroach museum in Plano,Texas.

14842. Science Facts

The largest living thing in the world is a fungus in Washington state, USA, which covers 6.5 square kilometres (2.5 square miles) and has been growing for hundreds of years.

14843. Science Facts

The germs present in faeces can pass through 10 layers of toilet paper – that's why you need to wash your hands!

14844. Science Facts

Some people – most of them in the USA – claim that they have been abducted by aliens from space while they slept, had their bodies experimented on and sometimes their minds changed, and were then returned to Earth.

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