Beautiful Science and Engineering

SOME FACTS

-It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids.

-Blood is about 78 percent water.

-The heart beats about 100,000 times each day.

-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.

-The center of the Sun is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million °C).

-The highest temperature on Earth was 136°F (58°C) in Libya in 1922.

-The lowest temperature on Earth was -128.6°F (-89.6°C) in Antarctica in 1983.

-Sunlight can pe*****te clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.

-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. :D

-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

-The human brain is 80% water.

-15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.

-Every minute, 30-40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body.

-The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.

-The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second (3x10*8 m/s).

-It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

-In dry air at 20 °C (68 °F), the speed of sound is 343.2 metres per second (1,126 ft/s).

-If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour. hahaha :D

- The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.(BUT I'AM NOT SURE OF THAT ;)

-One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.