Mad Science facts

MARISSA ALTENBURG, H/S Editor

The world has so many crazy facts that nobody ever realizes. So here is a little did you know…

  • Babies have 100 more bones in their body than adults.
  • The Eiffel tower can be 15 cm taller in the summer
  • 20% of the Earth’s oxygen comes from the Amazon rainforest
  • There are some metals that are radioactive with water contact
  • A teaspoon of neutron star weighs 6 billion tons
  • Hawaii moves 7.5 cm closer to Alaska every year
  • Chalk is made from trillions of plankton fossils
  • In 2.3 billion years it will be too hot for life to exist on earth
  • It takes 8 minutes and 19 seconds for light to travel from the sun to earth.
  • Venus is the only planet that spins clockwise
  • A flea can accelerate faster than a spaceship

All of these facts are according to How it works daily