Cool and awesome science facts.

[TDF]

Science is always, and will always be awesome. So share with us awesome science facts that you know.

-The current strongest acid we know of is Hydrofluoric acid.

-The most common acid found is Hydrochloric acid, which is also the second strongest. It's common because it's the acid in your stomach that digests food.

-Celery is the only organic food that will help you lose weight. As it provides 'Negative Calories', because it takes more calories to digest it rather than the nutrient you get from it.

-'Baby' shows (Such as Dora) have actually been proven to drop your IQ if watched at an early age.

-Playing a song backwards actually makes it sound better. Subconsciously, when you hear something, you brain also plays it backwards to make sure you heard what you heard. That's why if you play something backwards, your brain is more comfortable because when it plays THAT backwards, you already know the words.

[Ejak]

Apr 27, 2009 19:22:05 GMT -5 TDF said:

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-Celery is the only organic food that will help you lose weight. As it provides 'Negative Calories', because it takes more calories to digest it

apples provide negitive calories too

dolphins are the only known animal to have sex for pleasure

if i cut off my hand blood would shoot 10 ft in front of me

the planet uranus rotates on it side do to a tilted axis

uranus is icky... wipe it

there is super huge particle accelerater in europe which will be used to simulate the ealist moments after the birth of the universe

virus's are not technicly alive so you cant kill them

scientists have found meteors that contain organic protiens, and beleave life came from outer space

[SLE]

Sonic The Hedgehog is not only the speedy impatient mascot of Sega, but is also a chemical that was named after the mascot. It's one of the 3 proteins in the mammalian hedgehog family.

Pikachurin was named after Pikachu. Pikachurin is a dystroglycan-interacting protein which has an essential role in the precise interactions between the photoreceptor ribbon synapse and the bipolar dendrites. The name of this "nimble" protein was inspired due to Pikachu's "lightning-fast moves and shocking electric effects".

Zbtb7, is an oncogene that was originally named "Pokemon". It was changed because they didn't want their game to be associated with a cancer-causing gene.

[eiron]

All polar bears are left handed.

Botox is the most toxic substance on earth.

Worms can absorb the memories of other worms by eating their remains.

Bamboo can grow a foot and a half a day.

The Tabo supervolcano eruption 75,000 years ago reduced the population of human ancestors down to around 30 reproducing females.

Apples wake people up faster than coffee.

Marijuana is 20 times more damaging to the lungs than cigarettes.

All Greenland Sharks become infected with a parasite that renders them blind.

The concept for the microwave oven was conceived when one of the technicians working on microwave emmisions walked in front of a particle accelrator, and the chocolate in his pocket melted.

The gravitational pull of black holes contorts spacetime to such a degree that crossing the event horizon places the singularity at the center in the future. (You're screwed)

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev has spent so much time in space (A cumulative 804 days) that he has moved one second into the future due to Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

[Sharpay]

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

An inch of rain water equals to 15 inches of fresh snow.

Sound travels 4 times faster in water than in air.

[NBAplaya8484]

dolphins are the only known animal to have sex for pleasure

and humans don't

[rebirth]

The Human Body only contains two pints of blood.

Panda bears aren't bears, in fact they are related to the Raccoons.

[TDF]

May 7, 2009 19:46:56 GMT -5 @rebirth said:

The Human Body only contains two pints of blood.

Those are infants, a human adult carries up to 10 pints.
Every human can survive with at least 50% of there blood (But they'll probably pass out.)

When I human feels inexplicable fear, they go into a state of shock. A general state where you're about 5x faster and stronger, you can't feel any pain or get tired. It's almost like a final resort of the human body to survive. Unfortunately, kinda like a hangover, when your body goes back to normal, you feel all the pain you didn't feel, get tired (and probably so tired you may die, or fall asleep immediately if you're lucky.) you could get severe muscle tissue damage if you used your tremendous strength too much.
(Funnily enough, this state was first discovered when a car landed on a child, and the mother went into that state and actually lifted the car of him. After she reverted, she suffered sever muscle damage and was forced to be hospitalized for almost two years.)

[zeromaeus]

Hemp seeds are actually better for you health-wise than tofu

If a googolplex were to be typed out and printed in one point font, not only would it take longer than the current age of the universe to produce, but the length of the paper, were it a continuous sheet, would be longer than the diameter of the known universe.

[Sharpay]

Speaking of dolphins, somehow sharks avoid them. This experiment was produced by MythBusters.

[eiron]

In Hawaii, Great White Sharks eat dolphins.

[Sharpay]

I did not know that. Now I am curious of the experiment was just luck or if it was just Great White Sharks that does not avoid dolphins.

[rebirth]

May 7, 2009 20:49:21 GMT -5 TDF said:

May 7, 2009 19:46:56 GMT -5 @rebirth said:

The Human Body only contains two pints of blood.

Those are infants, a human adult carries up to 10 pints.
Every human can survive with at least 50% of there blood (But they'll probably pass out.)

When I human feels inexplicable fear, they go into a state of shock. A general state where you're about 5x faster and stronger, you can't feel any pain or get tired. It's almost like a final resort of the human body to survive. Unfortunately, kinda like a hangover, when your body goes back to normal, you feel all the pain you didn't feel, get tired (and probably so tired you may die, or fall asleep immediately if you're lucky.) you could get severe muscle tissue damage if you used your tremendous strength too much.
(Funnily enough, this state was first discovered when a car landed on a child, and the mother went into that state and actually lifted the car of him. After she reverted, she suffered sever muscle damage and was forced to be hospitalized for almost two years.)

I heard of that; I seen people do weird stuff when they are faced with danger, etc.

[eiron]

May 8, 2009 1:13:18 GMT -5 Sharpay said:

I did not know that. Now I am curious of the experiment was just luck or if it was just Great White Sharks that does not avoid dolphins.

I think that it might just be White Sharks, since they're the only sharks I know of that regularly prey on large mammels. Tiger Sharks may also attack dolphins, but I'm not sure.

[Dobs]

Apr 27, 2009 19:22:05 GMT -5 TDF said:

Science is always, and will always be awesome. So share with us awesome science facts that you know.

-The current strongest acid we know of is Hydrofluoric acid.

-The most common acid found is Hydrochloric acid, which is also the second strongest. It's common because it's the acid in your stomach that digests food.

-Celery is the only organic food that will help you lose weight. As it provides 'Negative Calories', because it takes more calories to digest it rather than the nutrient you get from it.

-'Baby' shows (Such as Dora) have actually been proven to drop your IQ if watched at an early age.

-Playing a song backwards actually makes it sound better. Subconsciously, when you hear something, you brain also plays it backwards to make sure you heard what you heard. That's why if you play something backwards, your brain is more comfortable because when it plays THAT backwards, you already know the words.

Not entirely true... hydroflouric acid is technically the "strongest" in that its the most seperable and acid-like, but it isn't corrosive at all. The most corrosive acid is sulfuric acid. It dissolves bodies