Science trivia

Have a Heart
If all major forms of cardiovascular disease were eliminated, human life expectance would
increase by 9.78 years.
SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics
Pillow Talk
A new survey of pillow primping practices indicates that 23% of people consider
themselves stackers; 20% plumpers; 16% are rollers; 16% cuddlers; while the remainder
are smashers and crunchers.
SOURCE: Survey by DuPont Co.
TB or Not TB?
Treatment-resistant tuberculosis has been reported in 42 states and Washington, D.C., up
from 13 states during the tuberculosis epidemic of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
DID YOU KNOW?
The world record for passing gas was set on Japanese television,
3,000 times in a row
SOURCE: Grossology: The science of Really Gross Things
DID YOU KNOW?
The typical American child watches 1,680 minutes of television per week (about two
months a year). The same youth spends 38 minutes a week in meaningful conversation with
his or her parents.
SOURCE: A.C. Nielson Co.
DID YOU KNOW?
. . . that a cricket's ears are on its knees? That a fly has tastebuds on its feet.
SOURCE: Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences
DID YOU KNOW?
Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water table
for human consumption.
SOURCE: National Water Commission
DID YOU KNOW?
The aqualung, a device for breathing under water was invented by Jacques Cousteau and
Emile Gagnan of the French Navy in 1943 so that "frogmen" could put mines under enemy
ships.
STRANGE BUT TRUE--
In 1994, scientists in Australia invented a way of removing fleece from sheep without
shearing. They injected the sheep with a special hormone, then wrapped them in
lightweight hairnets. Three weeks later, the fleece could be peeled off the sheep by hand.
Science Trivia
DID YOU KNOW?
 Every four days the worlds population increases by one million people.
 The Sun loses 360 million tonnes of material each day.
 DNA unravels at 7000 RPM (revolutions per minute).
 The DNA in a single human cell is 37 metres long when unravelled.
 Most people put their right sock on first.
 A single bacteria cell, given all the food it needs, could divide into a ball of cells the size
of the Earth in 24 hours.
 The oldest living thing is a Box Huckleberry bush growing in Pennsylvania, USA. It is
13,000 years old.
 Some species of Bamboo can grow at the rate of 1 ½ metres in 24 hours.
 
The head of a Woodpecker striking a tree is travelling at more than 1,300 miles per hour -
twice the speed of a bullet.
 A sneeze leaves your nostrils at the speed of 180km/hr.
 Your brain consumes about 20 percent of the oxygen that your body takes in, even when
asleep - it never rests!
 Your blood vessels, if laid end to end, would encircle the globe twice over.
 Men have more blood in their circulatory system than women and more red blood cells.
 Hair grows faster in the summer than in winter, just like your nails do
 Ringworm is not caused by a worms but by a highly contagious, very itchy fungus
infection, tinea.
 Your muscles produce enough heat to boil one litre of water for an hour - that's what
shivering is all about.
 You can get bloodshot eyes from a sneeze.
 Less than half a kidney can take over all the tasks that two kidneys usually accomplish
together.
 10 million people around the world have a birthday on the same day as you.
 The largest ovarian cyst weighed 134 kg and had to be carried out of the operating theatre
on a trolley.
 Babies are born far sighted - their eyes start to focus properly between 3 to 6 months of
age.
 A Russian woman, between the years 1725 and 1765, produced 69 children including 16
pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.
 Phobias are named after the Greek or Latin of what is feared:
SOURCE: http://www.seorf.ohiou.edu/~af388/trivia.html

Another trivia list! This list explores a variety of fascinating scientific facts that
you probably are unaware of. Science is still a very mysterious subject so
there are millions of trivial facts about it – this will be the first of many scientific
fact lists in the future.
Facts 1 – 5

1. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to
end they would circle the earth 2.5 times
2. At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living
structure on Earth
3. The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one
occurrence every 9,300 years
4. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons
5. A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton
bombs
Facts 6 – 10

6. Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide

7. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph, by Fred
Rompelberg
8. We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine
9. 65% of those with autism are left handed
10. The combined length of the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles
Facts 11 – 15

11. The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of
nearly 500 feet
12. The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion, billion, billion
liters of alcohol [JFrater is planning to move there in the near future]
13. Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air
14. 60-65 million years ago dolphins and humans shared a common ancestor
15. Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their
transparent fur
Facts 16 – 20

16. The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life
17. A single rye plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground
18. The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees C during
the day, and, at night, plummets to minus 180 degrees centigrade
19. The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from ten to twenty-five
gallons in twenty-four hours
20. Butterflies taste with their hind feet, and their taste sensation works on
touch – this allows them to determine whether a leaf is edible
http://listverse.com/2007/12/19/top-20-amazing-science-facts/
 Math trivia
 2. The mathematical name for the division sign is called Obelus
 3. Did you know Giga stands for a Billion?
 4. Googol is the term used for the number 1 followed by 100 Zeros and
was first used by a nine-year old, Milton Sirotta in 1940!
 5. When a coffee seed is planted, it takes about 1825 days to yield
consumable product
 6. Greek math whiz Pythagoras noticed that the morning star and evening
star were one and the same in 530 B.C
 7. The number 2 is the only prime number that does not have an
"e" in its name
 8. October 10th is celebrated as National Metric Day
 9. You will have to count up to one thousand to use the alphabet
"A" in English Language to spell a whole number
 10. Plus (+) and Minus (-) signs were first used by mathematicians in the
sixteenth century
 11. When you multiply 1089 by 9, the answer you get is 9801, which is the
exact reverse of the number 1089
 12. A Icosahedron is a geometric shape that has twenty (20) equal sides
 13. The lifespan of a taste bud is ten days. That is 240 hours
 14. "Four" is the only number in the English language that is
spelled with the same number of letters as the number itself
 15. When you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111, you get
12,345,678,987,654,321
 16. The record for most snowfall in a day, 78 inches, happened on
February 7, 1916 in Alaska. It is equal to a person as tall as 6.5 feet!
http://www.slideshare.net/sureshmurthy2/e-book-final1v3

Mathematics Facts & Trivia

The value of zero was first used by the ancient Indian

mathematician Aryabhata.Submitted by: Sundara Moorthy - Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, India
The sum of the digits of a number which is a multiple of 9 is always 9, ie,
45 : 4+5 = 9
1980 : 1+9+8+0=18 : 1+8 = 9
214164 : 2+1+4+1+6+4=18 : 1+8 = 9
etc.Submitted by: Vighneswar - India

9 × 9 + 7 = 88
98 × 9 + 6 = 888
987 × 9 + 5 = 8888
...
and so on.Submitted by: Tyler - United States
 The implicit curve equation(x2+y2-1)3-x2y3=0 produces the heart
shape.Submitted by: Hyde - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The term Googol (10100, ie, 10 followed by 100 zeros) was invented by a 9-year
old boyMilton Sirotta.Submitted by: Cynthia - San Francisco, California, United States

The Reuleaux Triangle is a shape of constant width other than a circle.

Submitted by: Adarsh - Guraon, India

17 689 = 1332
177 6889 = 13332
1777 68889 = 133332
17777 688889 = 1333332
177777 6888889 = 13333332
Submitted by: Laxmana Perumal - Nagercoil, India

The Seven UnsolvedMillennium Prize Math Problems are:

1. P versus NP problem
2. Hodge Conjecture
3. Poincaré conjecture (solved in 2002)
4. Riemann Hypothesis
5. Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap
6. Navier-Stokes Existence and Smoothness
7. Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer ConjectureSubmitted by: Ravi - Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

The Fibonacci sequence are numbers where each following number is the
sum of the previous two:
0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 ...Submitted by: Matt - California, United States
A Palindrome Number is a number that reads the same backwards and forward,
e.g. 13431.Submitted by: Yusuf - Victoria, Australia
A dollar can be made into small change in293 ways.
 You can remember the value of Pi(3.1415926) by counting each word's letters in
"May I have a large container of coffee?"
Multiplication and succession:
1 × 8 + 1 = 9
12 × 8 + 2 = 98
123 × 8 + 3 = 987
...and so on.Submitted by: Moi, Canada.
142857 is a cyclic number, i.e., its digits are rotated around when multiplied by any
number from 1 to 6. Like this:
142857 × 1 = 142857
142857 × 5 = 7 14285
142857 × 4 = 57 1428
142857 × 6 = 857 142
142857 × 2 = 2857 14
142857 × 3 = 42857 1
Submitted by: Moi, Canada.

1089 multiplied by 9 gives an exact reverse: 9801.

From 0 to 1000, the letter "A" only appears in 1000 ("one thousand").Submitted by: Ramil Argete
2 is called the "oddest" Even-Primenumber. 2 is a unique Even-Prime because while all
Evens are divisible by 2, any number apart from 2 that is divisible by 2, is not a Prime.

1 × 9 + 2 = 11
12 × 9 + 3 = 111
123 × 9 + 4 = 1111
..... and so on.Submitted by: Rob
40 when written "forty" is the only number with letters in alphabetical order, while "one" is
the only one with letters in reverse order.Submitted by: Rob

1 googol = 10100
1 googolplex = 10googol = 1010100
(The "Google" website name was inspired by "Googol".)

Pi (3.14159...) is a number that cannot be written as a fraction.Submitted by: Tiff - Witherbee, United
States

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.Submitted by: Ramesh - Pune,
India

21978 when multiplied by 4 is the same number with digits in reverse order:

21978 × 4 = 87912
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5...) the total is 5050.

The billionth digit of Pi is 9.

1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are the values of the numbers of factors they have.

2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.

The largest known prime number (so far) is 17,425,170 digits long.Submitted by: Mathguy

The digits to the right of the Pi's (3.141...) decimal point can keep going forever, and
there is no pattern to these digits at all.

http://www.sciensational.com/maths.html