When a person sneezes, the speed of exhaled air is about 160 km per hour (almost 100 miles per hour)!

All babies are born with blue eyes.


Can you sneeze with your eyes 👀 open?  NO ❌!


A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the Sun.


Your hair can hold a load weight of 3 kg (6.7 pounds).


If a flea were a person 1.80 meters (5.9 feet) tall, it could jump 230 meters (252 yards) high. Yes, a flea can jump 130 times its own height!


A woman’s heart usually beats faster than a man’s because her heart is a little smaller, so it needs to pump more often to send blood around the body.

Can you imagine how long a human DNA 🧬 is? If you stretch your entire chain of DNA, its length will be the distance from Pluto to the Sun and back.


Light💡 particle photons are strange tourists! It takes 40,000 light years to travel from the Sun’s core to its surface, and only 8 minutes to reach Earth.


You can not talk and inhale or exhale at the same time… try it!


Your nose and ears continue growing for your entire life.


The coldest temperature 🧊 ever recorded was -129 °F (-89 °C) in Antarctica in 1983. The hottest ☀️ was 136 °F (+59 °C), recorded in the Libyan desert in 1922.

Fun Facts in Numbers

60%

The human body is made up of about 60% water, which is why it’s important to drink plenty of fluids to stay hydrated.

200

You have to involve 200 muscles to take just one step!

53

53 muscles that can be involved in a smile 😁

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An electric eel produces an electric⚡️ current with a voltage of 650 volts. Touching it is the strongest 🤯 shock a person can feel. For comparison, in a normal outlet, the voltage is only 110 volts!

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A compass is a tool with a needle that always points north, helping you know which direction to go. The compass needle is magnetic, and the Earth’s magnetic pull affects it, similar to how two fridge magnets snap together.

The compass was invented in ancient China and was an essential tool for travelers.

Magnets have two opposite sides, called a north pole and a south pole.

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Fun Facts about Famous Scientists

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a genius, but his talents were revealed quite late. After the scientist’s death, his brain 🧠 was the object of numerous studies.

Archimedes

Archimedes invented the law of liquid displacement while taking a bath 🛀 . According to legend, he jumped out of the bath with the cry “Eureka!” He was so excited that he forgot that he was not wearing any clothes.

Marie Curie

Marie Curie, a female chemist 👩‍🔬 who discovered radium, a metal. She was the first person in the world to win the Nobel Prize twice.

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was not only an artist 👨‍🎨 . He was also an outstanding mathematician, scientist 👨‍🔬 , writer ✍️ and even a musician.

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Fun Facts about Space

We live in the Milky Way galaxy. It’s so big that it would need you about 100,000 light-years to reach its end.

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