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Funny Facts - Science V
You use over 70 muscles to say one word.
Plants that are not cared for will cry for help, a thirsty plant will make a high-pitched sound that is too high for us to hear.
It takes a plastic container 50,000 years to start decomposing.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 mph!
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus.
A single individual, Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste, owns over 200,000 domain names!
The highest publicly reported amount of money paid for a domain name is $7.5 million! Paid for business.com.
Every single possible 3-character .com domain (over 50,000) has long since been registered!
Every single "all a's" domain name, from a.com to aaa..aaa.com (63 a's) has been registered!
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
You use over 70 muscles to say one word.
Plants that are not cared for will cry for help, a thirsty plant will make a high-pitched sound that is too high for us to hear.
It takes a plastic container 50,000 years to start decomposing.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 mph!
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus.
A single individual, Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste, owns over 200,000 domain names!
The highest publicly reported amount of money paid for a domain name is $7.5 million! Paid for business.com.
Every single possible 3-character .com domain (over 50,000) has long since been registered!
Every single "all a's" domain name, from a.com to aaa..aaa.com (63 a's) has been registered!
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation.