Some fun science facts for kids

Enjoy our fun science facts for kids. Learn interesting earth facts, amazing chemistry facts, cool space facts, funny facts about animals and much more facts.

1) Collectively Speaking, Humans Have Spent Longer Playing World Of Warcraft (Over 6 Million Years) Than We Have Existed As A Species Separate From Chimpanzees.

2) A Dog Has The Same Ecological Footprint As Two Toyota Landcruisers; A Has Cat The Same Environmental Effect As A Volkswagen Golf; Two Hamsters The Same As A Plasma TV.

3) The Average Person Walks The Equivalent Of Three Times Around The World In A Lifetime.

4) If You Could Drive Your Car Straight Up You Would Arrive In Space In Just Over An Hour.

5) About 65 Billion Neutrinos Will Pass Through Your Fingernail In A Second

6) If All The LEGO Bricks Ever Manufactured Were Clipped On Top Of One Another, They Would Make A Tower Ten Times As High As The Distance To The Moon.

7) Light Would Take .13 Seconds To Travel Around The Earth.

8) If You Drilled A Tunnel Straight Through The Earth And Jumped In, It Would Take You Exactly 42 Minutes And 12 Seconds To Get To The Other Side.

9) A Medium-Sized Cumulus Cloud Weighs About The Same As 80 Elephants.

10) A Single Bolt Of Lightning Contains Enough Energy To Cook 100,000 Pieces Of Toast.

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Human can't fly like birds

Have you ever wondered an interesting science facts question: the reason why birds can fly, but not human and other animals? Let’s see how

Although mankind has conquered the skies with airplanes, we have yet to match up to our winged animal counterparts who fly on their own. And now, scientists have determined that we never will: it is mathematically impossible for humans to fly like birds.

A bird can fly because its wingspan and the wing muscle strength are in balance with its body size. It has a lightweight skeleton with hollow bones, which puts a smaller load on its wings. A bird also has air sacs connected to its lungs, which makes it even lighter and allows for easy passage of air through its lungs during flight.

On the other hand, calculations of the ratio between human size and strength reveal that our species will never be able to take flight unaided. As an organism grows, its weight increases at a faster rate than its strength. Thus, an average adult male human would need a wingspan of at least 6.7 meters to fly. This calculation does not even take into account that these wings themselves would be too heavy to function.

There is a reason that a 6-year-old girl can do more pull-ups than her 40-year-old father — she may be weaker, but her strength-to-size ratio is still greater than her father’s ratio. In other words, humans are not too large to fly, but our strength simply cannot support our weight in flight.

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The Strange Facts of Life

Enjoy the following strange facts of life:

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. Awesome! If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. Interesting!!

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is ‘Das Beste oder Nichts’ meaning ‘the best or nothing’. Cool!!

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal. Amazing

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing. Interesting!!

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.

Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. Frank Perdue’s chicken slogan, “It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken” was translated into Spanish as “it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate. Awesome!”

11. Dalmatians are born without spots. Interesting!!!!

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Awesome!

13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings. Interesting!!!! or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings. Interesting!!!!

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart