Science Trivia

  • A lemon will float in water, but a lime will sink.
  • Astronauts are subject to fingernail delamination - A process in which spacewalks can cause an astronaut's fingernails to fall off.
  • Astronauts cannot burp in space because there isn't enough gravity to separate the gasses from liquids in the stomach.
  • The acid in your stomach is so powerful it can dissolve a razor blade in less than a week.
  • Studies have proven that sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children.
  • Those bumps on your tongue aren't actually taste buds.
    They're fungi form papillae -- "Mushroom-shaped nipples" in Latin.
  • Studies have proven that sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children.
  • The only cells that survive from the time you are born until death are in your eye.
  • That sudden jerk you sometimes experience when you "slip" in a dream while half asleep is called a "Hypnic Jerk."
  • Though the hair on your head can live up to seven years, pubic hair can only live for a few weeks.
    That's why it doesn't grow to braided ponytail lengths.
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