MIND BENDING SCIENTIFIC TRUTHS

IF A THIMBLE WERE FILLED WITH MATTER FROM A

NEUTRON STAR, IT WOULD WEIGH ALMOST

100 MILLION TONS

BLIND SIGHT IS A PHENOMENON WHERE BLIND

PEOPLE PRODUCE PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO

VISUAL STIMULI (E.G. ANGRY FACES) IN SPITE OF

NOT BEING ABLE TO PERCEIVE THEM

IF HUMANS HAD USED NEWTON'S FORMULAS INSTEAD

OF EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY, GPS

CALCULATIONS WOULD BE OFF BY SEVERAL MILES

THE COLDEST PLACE ANYWHERE IN THE KNOWN

UNIVERSE IS (WAS) RIGHT HERE ON EARTH IN A

LABORATORY. SCIENTISTS MANAGED TO NEARLY FREEZE

ATOMS USING LASER COOLING. THIS HAS LED TO

TEMPERATURES WITHIN A BILLIONTH OF A DEGREE

OF ABSOLUTE ZERO

THE HUMAN BRAIN HAS MORE SYNAPSES THAN

THE MILKY WAY HAS STARS

IF YOU REMOVED ALL OF THE EMPTY SPACE OUT

OF ITS ATOMS, YOU COULD FIT MOUNT EVEREST

INTO A SHOT GLASS

THE SAME COMPOUND THAT GIVES RASPBERRIES

THEIR FLAVOUR IS FOUND THROUGHOUT OUR GALAXY.

THAT'S RIGHT, THE MILKY WAY TASTES

LIKE RASPBERRIES!

ACCORDING TO THE HAFELE–KEATING EXPERIMENT,

TIME MOVES FASTER ON WESTWARD BOUND FLIGHTS

THAN ON EASTWARD BOUND FLIGHTS

(RELATIVE TO EARTH'S CENTRE)

ALL OF THE CELLS IN YOUR BODY HAVE BEEN DIVIDING

EVER SINCE LIFE ON EARTH BEGAN. AND ALL OF

THAT DIVISION WILL END WITH YOUR DEATH EXCEPT

FOR ANY CELLS THAT YOU PASS ON TO YOUR

OFFSPRING (1 PER CHILD) AND A FEW SPECIAL

CIRCUMSTANCES (ORGAN DONATION, ETC.)