fossilised dung (also named a 'coprolite') is helping

LET’S COUNT!!! scientists better understand what the dinosaur ate.

(Read between the lines) How many litres of dinosaur poo per 10 cm?
5. A chicken once lived for 18 months without a head.
Mike the chicken's incredible feat was recorded back
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS! in the 1940s in the USA. He survived as his jugular
vein and most of his brainstem were left mostly
1. A cloud weighs around a million tonnes. A cloud typically intact, ensuring just enough brain function remained
has a volume of around 1km3 and a density of around for survival. In the majority of cases, a headless
1.003kg per m3 – that's a density that’s around 0.4 per chicken dies in a matter of minutes.
cent lower than the air surrounding it (this is how they are If the chicken head was cut in November 1942, when
able to float). did it die?
How much do 35 clouds weigh approximately? 6. All the world’s bacteria stacked on top of each other
would stretch for 10 billion light-years.
2. Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning Together, Earth's 0.001mm-long microbes could wrap
than people. True, there are only five well-documented around the Milky Way over 20,000 times.
fatal lightning strikes on giraffes between 1996 and 2010.
But due to the population of the species being just If the milky way is 11 km long, how many kms are
140,000 during this time, it makes for about 0.003 the microbes?
lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year. This is 7. Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by
30 times the equivalent fatality rate for humans. 7.5 per cent. A study in 2018 found that wearing a
necktie can reduce the blood flow to your brain by up
 What is the average of death number of giraffes to 7.5 per cent, which can make you feel dizzy,
between 1996 and 2010 per year? nauseous, and cause headaches. They can also
 What is the fatality rate for humans to get hit by increase the pressure in your eyes if on too tight and
lightning? are great at carrying germs.
3. Earth’s rotation is changing speed. It's actually If the blood flow to the brain is 6 litres a day, how
slowing. This means that, on average, the length of a many litres do the blood flow if you are wearing a tie?
day increases by around 1.8 seconds per century. 600
8. The world’s oldest dog lived to 29.5 years old. While
million years ago a day lasted just 21 hours.
the median age a dog reaches tends to be about 10-
If a day in 2024 is 24 hours exactly, how much longer 15 years, one Australian cattle dog, ‘Bluey’, survived
it is from the day in 1724? to the ripe old age of 29.5.
4. The largest piece of fossilised dinosaur poo The world’s oldest cat lived to 38 years and three
discovered is over 30cm long and over two litres in days old. Creme Puff was the oldest cat to ever live.
volume. Believed to be a Tyrannosaurus rex turd, the
How many years is the difference between the oldest
dog and the oldest cat?
 If Crème Puff was born in 1978, when did it die? If there are 2890 ants, how many spiracles do they
If in 2003 Bluey was 7 years old, when did it die? have in total?
9. Mount Everest isn't the tallest mountain on Earth. 13.Football teams wearing red kits play better. The
Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the twin colour of your clothes can affect how you’re
volcanoes, are taller than Mount Everest due to perceived by others and change how you feel. A
4.2km of their heights being submerged underwater. review of football matches in the last 55 years, for
The twin volcanoes measure a staggering 10.2km in example, showed that teams wearing a red kit
total, compared to Everest’s paltry 4.6km. consistently played better in home matches than
teams in any other colour.
What is the difference between the height of Mount
Everest and the twin Volcanoes? When did the review begin?
If the Mauna Kea is 5.2 km in height, how many kms, 14.Wind turbines kill between 10,000 and 100,000 birds
do we have to climb if we want to reach the peak? each year in the UK. Interestingly, painting one of the
blades of a wind turbine black can reduce bird deaths
10.Octopuses don’t actually have tentacles. They have by 70 per cent.
eight limbs, but they're arms (for most species).
Technically, when talking about cephalopods  How many birds die from 1968 until now from
(octopuses, squids etc), scientists define tentacles as the wind turbines?
limbs with suckers at their end. Octopus arms have  If there are 280.000 birds die, how many bird
suckers down most of their length. death can we reduce if we paint the blades
black?
 How many limbs do 16 octopuses have?
 If one of the octopuses lose 3 of its limbs, and 15.Snails have teeth. Between 1,000 and 12,000 teeth,
there are 8 octopuses, how many limbs do they to be precise. They aren’t like ours, though, so don’t
have in total? be thinking about snails with ridiculous toothy grins.
You’ll find the snail's tiny 'teeth' all over its file-like
11.Most maps of the world are wrong. On most tongue.
maps, the Mercator projection – first developed in
1569 – is still used. This method is wildly inaccurate If a snail loses 10% of its teeth, how many left?
and makes Alaska appear as large as Brazil and
Greenland 14 times larger than it actually is. For a If there are 29 snails in the garden, how many teeth
map to be completely accurate, it would need to be do they have in total approximately?
life-size and round, not flat. 16.Sound can be minus decibels. The quietest place on
If Greenland in the map is 812 km2, how many Earth is Microsoft’s anechoic chamber in Redmond,
kilometres squares, is it in reality? WA, USA, at -20.6 decibels. These anechoic chambers
are built out of heavy concrete and brick and are
12.Ants don’t have lungs. They instead breathe through mounted on springs to stop vibrations from getting in
spiracles, nine or ten tiny openings, depending on the through the floor.
species. if we make a sound at 18.67 decibels, what is the
difference between the sound we make and the
quietest place on Earth?
17.A horse normally has more than one horsepower. A 22.A lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface
study in 1993 showed that the maximum power a of the Sun. The charge carried by a bolt of lightning is
horse can produce is 18,000W, around 24 so intense that it has a temperature of 30,000°C
horsepower. What is the temperature of the surface of the sun
according to this text?
 How many watts, is 1 horsepower?
 If we have 17 horses, how many watts of 23.The longest anyone has held their breath underwater
power do they make? is over 24.5 minutes. The world record for breath-
holding underwater was achieved by Croatian
18.Your signature could reveal personality traits. A study Budimir Šobat on 27 March 2021, who held his breath
in 2016 purports that among men, a larger signature for a total of 24 minutes and 37 seconds. On average,
correlates with higher social bravado and, among a human can hold their breath between 30-90
women, a bigger signature correlates with narcissistic seconds.
traits.
If Budimir dives on 09.00 pm, at what time will he go
How long ago was the study conducted? to the surface of the water?
19.You travel 2.5 million km a day around the Sun
without realising. The Earth’s orbit travels around 2.5
million kilometres with respect to the Sun’s centre,
and around 19 million km with respect to the centre
of the Milky Way.
How many kms do we travel around the sun in a
week?
In a year?

20.Most ginger cats are male. There are roughly three

ginger male cats to one ginger female. This is
because the ginger gene is found on the X
chromosome, meaning female cats would require two
copies of the gene to become ginger whilst males
only need one.
How many male cats roughly in 84 ginger cats?
21.The biggest butterfly in the world has a 31cm
wingspan. It belongs to the Queen Alexandra's
Birdwing butterfly, which you can find in the forests
of the Oro Province, in the east of Papua New Guinea.
If we spread 15 Queen Alexandra’s birdwing butterfly,
how many metres it will be?