The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
40
Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
41
The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
116
Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
162
It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
6
Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
0
Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
116
Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
304