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Amazing Science Facts

1- Turtles can live for more than 100 years.

2- An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.

3- The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.

4- The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight.

5- If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of 18 square feet.

6- A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.

7- Ocean waves can travel as fast as a JET Plane.

8- The first drawings of a helicopter are nearly 500 years old.

9- A butterfly warms up its body up to 81 degrees Fahrenheit before flying.

10- A whale can swim for 3 months without eating.

11- A human being drinks 16,000 tons of water in a lifetime.

12- We blink 25 times a minute.

13- To melt away 1 pound of fat you will need to walk 34 miles.

14- The star fish is actually not a fish, its an animal. ( phylum : Echinodermate )

15- Male mosquitoes do not bite, so blame the females next time.

16- A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.

17- The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet.

18- Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.

19- The small intestine is 7-8 meters long, making it the largest organ inside the human body. The large intestine is only 1-1.5 meters long!

20-The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo dragon which reaches up to 3 meters and sometimes longer was named because of it's fiery tongue. It is often longer than a car.


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Your age is all in your eyes

London: The eyes reveal more than what is in the heart – in fact, they reveal exactly when you were born, according to a new study by Danish scientists.

The study, by researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus, used radiocarbon dating and special proteins in the lens of the eye to establish – with relatively high precision – when a person was born.

This provides a useful tool for forensic scientists who can use it to establish the date of birth of an unidentified body and could also have further consequences for health science research.

The study has been published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.


Eye lens is made up of tightly packed transparent proteins called crystallins that, like crystals, allow light to pass through so that we can see.

These crystalline proteins are built till a human is 1-2 years of age – but after that they remain essentially unchanged.

Researchers have now used this fact to help establish the age of people by carbon dating the crystallins.

Apart from ascertaining the age of people, the findings of the study have other potential uses.

Niels Lynnerup, who headed the study, said: “We think that the carbon dating of proteins can also be used to study when certain kinds of tissue are generated and regenerated. This could, for example, be applied to cancer tissue and cancer cells.”

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