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Scientific research has brought out some fascinating facts and figures of the universe. The ongoing exploration of science has led us to knowing many fascinating facts about it. Science is strangely complicated and complexly weird. We have managed to reveal many secrets of nature through science but many mysteries still remain unsolved. While science has helped us find answers to some of the questions that have been plaguing us for years, it has not succeeded in revealing every secret of the universe. Here is a look at some weird science facts that leave you amazed
1. The blood vessels, which form a vital part of the circulatory system in human beings, are responsible for enabling the transport of blood throughout the body.
2. The human brain, which is the core of the central nervous system and a miraculous creation of nature, can process as many as 70 000 thoughts in a day!
3. Seahorses reproduce in a weird way. It is the male seahorses that get pregnant and give birth to the offspring, from just one to as many as two thousand fry at a time.
4. Polar bears can run about 35 kilometres an hour and jump to about two metres in the air. Polar bear fur consists of a layer of thick under-fur covered by an outer layer of guard hair. The guard hair appear in shades of white to tan but are actually transparent. The transparent fur makes the polar bears almost invisible under infrared photography!
5. Venus, the second-closest planet to the sun is the brightest natural object in the night sky, except for the moon.
Interestingly, it orbits the sun in a clockwise direction, whereas the rest of the planets revolve in an anticlockwise manner. A strange aspect of the orbital of Venus is that it reaches the point closest to Earth after every 584 days.
6. Science has revealed that a tropical cyclone releases heat energy at the rate of 50-200 exajoules per day.
This rate of the release of energy comes to about 200 times the world’s capacity of generating electrical energy. This rate of energy release is equivalent to that released during an explosion of a 10-megaton nuclear bomb every 20 minutes!
7. “Foetus in foetus” is a rare abnormality that refers to the phenomenon of a foetus getting trapped inside a twin’s body. The foetus continues to grow like a parasite inside a person’s body, leeching the person’s blood supply. It gradually grows so large that it begins harming the host’s body, after which it has to be surgically removed.
8. On an average, a person accidentally eats about 430 bugs in each year of his/her life.
9. Bamboo trees fall in the class of woody perennial evergreen plants but giant bamboo species form the largest members of the grass family. Bamboo is the fastest growing woody plant in the world. Some species of bamboo achieve a growth rate of an astonishing 3-4 feet per day!
10. A single cup of coffee contains over 1 000 chemical substances. – buzzle.com
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