20 Interesting Science Facts (#1)
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- 1 in 10 Europeans are immune to the HIV virus.
- It was either the plague or smallpox that made 1 in 10 Europeans immune to HIV
- Some women can see an extra colour. Its called tetrachromacy.
- Birds have a one-way respiratory system.
- Black slime on the Chernobyl reactor turned out to be a fungi that has evolved to use the reactors radiation as a food source.
- Margaret Thatcher was a chemist. She worked in a lab developing ice cream and helped make Mr Whippy.
- The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer then the Wright brother’s first flight.
- The Big Bang theory was given the name by Fred Hoyle to make the theory sound absurd.
- The microwave oven was accidentally discovered when a researcher’s chocolate bar melted in his pocket near a radar tube.
- Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize out of guilt after inventing dynamite.
- Only 1 of the UK’s 650 MPs is a scientist :S
- 78% of the population don’t have the genes required for smelling smelly urine after eating asparagus.
- Henning Brand though urine contained gold because of its colour. Trying to collect this gold he accidentally discovered phosphorus.
- Scientists got a cat to express GFP. Under a florescent light he glows bright green.
- Chickens have the genes for making teeth.
- Birds have nuclei in their red blood cells.
- The Big Bang was not an explosion, it was an expansion of space time.
- Fritz Haber is know for being responsible for sustaining 1/3 of the Earth’s population and also for his poisons gases in WWI.
- Laser was originally an acronym and stood for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
- Octopuses have three hearts.
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