16 Science Facts

1. 41 new species are discovered by scientists every single day.
2. The word "Scientist" first appeared in 1833.
3. Scientists finally concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes egg shells is only produced by hens.
4. A 10-Year-Old Accidentally Created in 2012 a New Molecule in Science Class: Tetranitratoxycarbon.
5. "Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia" is the scientific term for brain freeze.
6. A new scientific method called 'toxineering' turns venoms into painkillers.
7. Scientists have developed a way of charging mobile phones using urine.
8. Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
9. Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, so we can live without breathing.
10. The World's oldest known creature, a mollusc, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.
11. A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
12. Eating salmon helps hair grow faster.
13. During photosynthesis, plants emit light, called fluorescence, that humans can't see.
14. Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
15. It would take light 100,000 years to travel from one end of the Milky Way galaxy to the other.
16. If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.

How much paper can one tree make?