dinsdag 4 maart 2008

Funny facts

To make it easy for myself today, I'll just be posting short, funny facts I found.

The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.

The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.

The Atlantic Giant Squid's eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide.

The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA

The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.

There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.

According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

Moths have no stomach

Sharks are immune to cancer.

Ants do not sleep.