Scientific Facts 2 U..!!

Scientific Facts
* The ideal dimension for ship stability is a length six times that of the width.
* Female mosquitoes are non- vegetarian in nature and continue their existence by taking the blood of human-beings and other animals.
* Only in the last century have we discovered that there are towering mountains and deep trenches in the depths of the sea.
* Female mosquitoes are responsible for the spreading of the infectious diseases like Malaria, Dengue fever and Chikungunia etc.
* Washing soda: chemically it is Hydrated Sodium Carbonate.
* Chemically Cooking soda is Sodium Bicarbonate.
* If ornaments prepared with pure gold (24 carrots) does not give much brightness and also not so attractive, that is why, copper is added to the gold to prepare the ornaments (making it to 22 carrots), which are very shinning. These are more popular in India.
* There are 29 bones present in our head.
* Those who are pregnant after 35 years will have the 1 in 27 chance of giving delivery of twins.
* Carbon Dioxide is used in fire-extinguish devices.
* The male mosquitoes are vegetarians and live on eating the lives of the plants and the trees.
* Tongue of the blue whale’s weight is equal to the total body weight of the elephant.
* Rats and horses can’t have the power of vomiting, which is why the rats can’t survive, even after taking the small quantity of zinc sulphate(rat-poisoning).
* Taking 1 chips pocket per day is equal to taking 5 liters of oil in a year.
* The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
* Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
* Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
* Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.
* Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
* An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
* One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.
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