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Fun Facts!

  1. Water is known as the universal solvent and it is very important for sustaining of life.  The longest time that anyone has lived without food and water is 18 days.  An 18-year old man in Austria was put into a police cell on 1st April 1979, and forgotten!!  When he was discovered on 18th April, he was extremely close to death.
  2. Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.
  3. 100 years ago: The first virus was found in both plants and animals.
  4. 90 years ago: The Grand Canyon became a national monument & Cellophane is invented.
  5. 80 years ago: The food mixer and the domestic refrigerator were invented.
  6. 70 years ago: The teletype and PVC (polyvinyl-chloride) were invented.
  7. 60 years ago: Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission by splitting uranium, Teflon was invented.
  8. 50 years ago: Velcro was invented.
  9. 40 years ago: An all-female population of lizards was discovered in Armenia.
  10. 30 years ago: The computer mouse was invented.
  11. 20 years ago: First test-tube baby born in England, Pluto’s moon, Charon, discovered.
  12. 10 years ago: First patent for a genetically-engineered mouse was issued to Harvard Medical School.
  13. 5 years ago: The first successful cloning of human embryo
  14. The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
  15. There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
  16. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
  17. An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.
  18. The Atlantic Giant Squid's eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide.
  19. The most powerful laser in the world, the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand.
  20. The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
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