SCIENCE TRIVIA

1. The most poisonous snake in the world is Belcher's Sea Snake or the Faint-banded
Sea Snake (Hydrophis belcheri).
2. The cow has four stomachs, as most ruminant mammals do.
3. The little Alaskan Wood Frog is capable of reviving itself back to normal life after
staying completely frozen for months, during which its heart, brain and other organs
stop functioning.
4. Some species of earthworm can have as many as 10 hearts.
5. There are more species of fish in Amazon River than in the entire Atlantic Ocean
(Over 2,000)
6. Chameleons often have tongues longer than their bodies.
7. A worm is both male and female at the same time (a hermaphrodite.)
8. Dolphins and whales are mammals that don't drink water.
9. Sheep, goats and the octopus have almost rectangular-oval pupils in their eyes.
10. Giraffes could pass out with blood filling their brain when they lower their neck, so they have a
sponge-like organ in the head which slowly gathers and releases blood.
11. The Golden "Poison Dart" frog in South America is the most poisonous vertebrate
in the world.
12. The acceleration rate of a flea's jump is 20 times that of a space shuttle during
launch.
13. The Brazilian "railroad worm" has a head that glows with a red light, and has a
green light on its side.
14. A woodpecker can peck with a force as high as 1,200 g's with each impact -
equivalent to a human striking head against a wall at a speed of 25km (16 miles)
an hour each time.
15. A large woodpecker can peck as fast as 20 times a second and up to 12,000 times a
day.
16. The world's smallest flowering plant is the Wolffia, whose one full bouquet of
flowers can fit on the head of a push-pin.
17. Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in world, and can grow as big as an
umbrella.
18. Avocados have the highest fibre and calories of any fruit.
19. Pineapple is actually a giant berry.
20. Rats can swim for half a mile (0.8 km) without rest, and can tread water for three straight days.
21. Our eyes can distinguish as many as 10 million distinct colour variations.
22. An average adult human has skin weighing about 3 kilograms in total.
23. While we're awake, our brain generates enough power to illuminate a light bulb of 25 watts.
24. The world's smallest rodent is Pygmy Jerboa - measuring only a couple of inches in
length - and can run as fast as a horse.
25. The world's smallest frog - The Little Grass Frog - is no bigger than a house fly.
26. With more than 80,000 arms, the Basket Starfish has the greatest number of arms.
27. The electric eel of South America (Electrophorus electricus) can generate over 600
volts, and can paralyze even a horse.
28. While only 2% in weight, the human brain requires 15% of the body's heart work, 20% of
oxygen and 25% of all glucose.
29. For every 1000 red blood cells in our body, there is only about one white cell.
30. Armadillos spend about 80% of their lives asleep.
31. The human heart has enough pressure to squirt blood up to 30 feet away.
32. An Octopus has three hearts.
33. The Methuselah tree in California, USA, is the oldest living organism (4,800 years old) known
today.
34. The Giant Burrowing Frog doesn't croak. It hoots like an owl.
35. Honeybees have remained unchanged in form or structure for 20 million years.
36. An alligator may go through 2000 to 3000 teeth in a lifetime.
37. Whales were once land mammals that moved to the sea and adapted to marine life.
38. The tongue of a blue whale is bigger than a taxi cab, and can weigh as much as an elephant.
39. There are more insects in a single square mile of fertile soil than there are people on the entire
earth.
40. The longest recorded distance flown by any chicken is 301.5 feet (about 92 meters) in 13
seconds.
41. Elephants can hear through their feet.
42. Bananas are actually giant herbs - related to the orchid family.
43. The adult heart pumps about 7,500 litres of blood every day.
44. There are more bacteria and microbes in our body than actual cells that make up the body.
45. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
46. The blue whale can produce the loudest sound produced by an animal - up to 188 decibels - and
detected as far away as 853 kms (530mi).S
47. The giraffe is one of the quietest animals: it has no vocal chords to make any noise.
48. A goldfish (like most marine fish) can survive in a tank full of human blood.
49. In seahorses, it's the male who gives birth to the young.
50. You shed and regrow your skin every 28 days, that's about 1000 times in a lifetime.
51. An iguana always lands on its feet.
52. Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms, that's a 6ft tall person
jumping 780 ft in the air.
53. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times each year.
54. The liver is the only organ able to regenerate itself completely.
55. A fish never closes its eyes.
56. Only female mosquitoes bite people.
57. The Reticulated Pythons are the world's longest snake and also the longest reptile.
58. 95% of all the animal species on the earth are insects.
59. The human brain is 75% water.
60. A lobster has a sense of smell about 1000 times keener than a human.
61. 95% of all animals are invertebrates (without a backbone or spinal column).
62. Frogs eat their skin after they shed it.
63. Porcupines float in water.
64. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
65. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
66. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
67. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
68. If a person or an animal is born colorblind, they instantly have excellent night vision.
69. Elephants are the only land animal that can't jump.
70. A teaspoonful of soil may contain 100 million bacteria.
71. Eighty-five percent of all life on Earth is Plankton.
72. You can figure out which way is south if you are near a tree stump. The growth rings are wider
on the south side.
73. Eighty-five percent of all the plants and animals live in the sea.
74. Babies are born far sighted - their eyes start to focus properly between 3 to 6 months of age.
75. Men have more blood in their circulatory system than women and more red blood cells.