MIND BENDING SCIENTIFIC TRUTHS
Added on: 16th May 2016
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.)
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