Wednesday, October 04, 2006

SCIENCE - TRIVIA THAT ROCKS!

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If you say you don’t like Science, you never studied facts like these!

The Goliath beetle is the largest insect living today. It weighs about 4 ounces and is larger than your hand.

Fleas could win the insect Olympics. They can jump 200 times their body length.

A Stegosaurus had three brains! It had one in its head, one in its tail, and one in its back. None of them were very big though.

Over 80% of all tornadoes occur between noon and midnight.

The windiest spot on Earth is Antarctica. Wind speeds can be as high as 200 miles per hour at Commonwealth Bay.

A blue whale’s heart is as big as a compact car.

The average person produces 1.5 quarts of saliva per day.

Skunks can spray their foul odor only about two yards, but it can be smelled up to two and a half miles away.

A camel has a straight spine, despite its hump.

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