2. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there’s no air pressure.
3. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
4. On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
5. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
6. At a jet plane’s speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.
7. The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them. When you light the candle, you are also lighting the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and, in just a split second (or two or three), relights the wick.
8. Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
9. Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.
10. Rabbits can’t sweat.
11. According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.
12. Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don’t get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don’t have bones, but cartilage.
13. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
14. Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
15. There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
Post published in: World News