Fun Science Facts!
- What do you call a melon that is a brilliant blue and can change the taste of what you eat afterwards? Why that would be the Moonmelon of course! Grown in some parts of Japan and known for its color, the moonmelon can change a salty chip taste into a bitter, bland taste, or even change the taste of water into a strong orange flavor!
- The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,800 years
- Polar bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur
- The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life
- The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rocky Mountain or the Appalachian Mountains were formed.
- Astronauts cannot belch while in space - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs
- Every hour the universe expands by a billion miles in all directions
- The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18 miles per hour
- Even traveling at the speed of light it would take you 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda. Luckily, if you were traveling at the speed of light you wouldn't experience time at all.
- Due to the effect of Thermal Expansion, the Eiffel Tower is up to 15 cm taller in the summer
- A rubber tire is actually one single giant molecule