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- If a human’s DNA were to be uncovered, it would be so long that we would be able to measure the distance from the sun to Pluto and then from Pluto to the sun.
- When we sneeze, it travels at a speed of 100 miles per hour.
- A flea can jump 130 times higher than her height. So if Flea were a 6-foot-tall human, she would jump 780 feet comfortably, without any superpowers!
- It takes 40,000 years for a photon to travel from the center of the Sun to the surface of the Sun. But it takes only 8 minutes to reach the earth from the surface of the sun.
- The age of the Earth is 4 to 5 billion years. The Sun and the Moon are also close.
- Our earth is made of iron, carbon, silicon, and a little magnesium, not just humans!
- Earth is the only planet in the Solar System, that has 21% oxygen in its atmosphere and water on its surface.
- At -40 degrees the Fahrenheit scale and the Celsius scale are equal.
- The planet Venus is not tilted about its axis like the rest of the planets and therefore it does not have seasons it revolves around the sun in the opposite direction from the rest of the planets.
- The letter ‘j’ does not appear anywhere in the Periodic Table of the elements.
