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Interesting Science Facts 10

The document provides various interesting science facts in short paragraphs. It notes that fleas can accelerate faster than space shuttles during launch. It also explains that adding salt to a full glass of water will not cause overflow. Additionally, it mentions that the heaviest raindrops can fall at around 18 mph and that there is enough gold in the Earth's crust to cover the land in a layer up to the knees.

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Interesting Science Facts 10

The document provides various interesting science facts in short paragraphs. It notes that fleas can accelerate faster than space shuttles during launch. It also explains that adding salt to a full glass of water will not cause overflow. Additionally, it mentions that the heaviest raindrops can fall at around 18 mph and that there is enough gold in the Earth's crust to cover the land in a layer up to the knees.

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PHYSICAL

SCIENCES

MAGAZINE

Interesting Science Facts



When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch. If you slowly pour a handful of salt into a totally full glass of water it will not overflow. In fact, the water level will go down. The maximum speed that raindrops can fall at is around 18mph, depending on their size. There's enough gold in the Earth's crust to cover the entire land surface knee-deep. Whales talk to each other by making a loud clicking noise. The sound waves travel extremely well underwater and they can hear each other from 100 miles away. The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter J. Because of thermal expansion the Eiffel Tower is 15cm taller in summer. The first organic compound to be synthesized from inorganic ingredients was done by Friedrich Whler in 1828 synthesizing urea from ammonia and cyanic acid. You weigh less if you stand at the equator than if you stand at the North Pole. This is because the equator is actually further away from the centre of the earth, so the force of gravity is less. Fritz Haber developed chlorine gas for use by the Germans in World War I. (Unable to live with this, his wife commited suicide in 1915). The mass of the Earth increases every year because of 3,000 tonnes of meteorite debris that hits its surface from space. Helium was first identified when French astronomer Pierre-Jules-Csar Janssen obtained evidence for the existence when observing the solar eclipse of 1868 in India when he detected a new yellow line, at 587.49 nanometers, in the solar spectrum. Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women. The Moon is gradually moving away from the Earth and the tides are to blame. Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth. The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead' pencils. Gold leaf is pure gold, but you can cover large areas with it very cheaply because it is very thin. Gold leaf is less than 0.00008 millimetres thick - which is only about 300 atoms thick. Astatine is a radioactive element so rare that if you searched the entire planet youd only find a lump the size of a sugar cube.

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