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.

14845. Science Facts

A will-o'-the-wisp is a flame of burning marsh gas that appears in boggy areas at night. It has lured many travellers to a muddy death when they have left the path to follow it, believing it to be someone with a light.

14846. Science Facts

The castor bean plant contains the most deadly poison in the natural world, ricin. Just 70 micrograms (2-millionths of an ounce) could kill an adult human. It is 12,000 times more poisonous than rattle snake venom!

14847. Science Facts

Bacteria – tiny living things that we also call germs – divide in two every 20 minutes. So, starting with one (it doesn't need a girlfriend/boyfriend), you can have over 130 million in just 9 hours!

14848. Science Facts

It's said that dead Americans rot much more slowly than they used to – because they eat so many preservatives in their foods.

14849. Science Facts

Some scientists think that being too clean might make us ill – some studies suggest that people need to eat a small amount of dirt in order to kick start their immune systems. Not learning to fight infections can lead to asthma and other allergic problems.

14850. Science Facts

One possible way of controlling cockroaches being explored in the USA is to release parasitic worms which will kill the roaches but don't harm people.

14851. Science Facts

The stinking corpse plant, or rafflesia, is a huge parasitic flower that smells like rotting meat.The flower is up to a metre (about 3 feet) across and is the largest flower in the world. It grows directly out of a creeping vine, from which it gains all its nourishment without ever growing leaves of its own.

14852. Science Facts

Scientists working on transplant techniques grew a human ear on the back of a mouse. The ear is moulded using human cartilage cells, and nourished by the mouse's blood as it grows.

14853. Science Facts

The average glass of London tap water has passed through nine people's bladders before it reaches your sink.

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