Sex in the winter leads to babies who will never have to worry about their weight in the future These strange but true facts prove that our world is truly wonderful and mysterious. Check out the amazing facts that will surprise you.
There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in our galaxy
NASA experts estimate that the Milky Way galaxy may contain between 100 and 400 billion stars. However, a paper published in the journal Nature in 2015 claims that the number of trees around the world is much higher - there are about 3.04 trillion.
Oxygen has a color
As a gas, oxygen is odorless and colorless. However, in liquid and solid forms, it appears pale blue.
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Only one letter is not displayed in Mendeleev's periodic table
The periodic table is replete with Latin letters denoting chemical elements, but one of them is missing. This is the letter J. You can check and see for yourself.
Bananas are radioactive
It seems that this is impossible, over the past decade, bananas have been ranked among a number of dangerous sources of radiation exposure and even gave rise to such a definition as "the equivalent of banana radiation." But, despite such data, not a single case of human exposure to radiation from this exotic fetus has been recorded in the world.
Bananas contain potassium. It is the decay of this element that makes them slightly radioactive. But you have nothing to worry about. Forbes reports that you will need to eat 10 million bananas to die of radiation poisoning.
Hot water freezes faster than cold water
This fact seems counterintuitive, but scientists called the process the Memba effect after a Tanzanian student named Memba told his teacher that the hot ice cream mixture froze faster than the cold one.
Researchers currently believe this is due to the fact that water molecules have a specific location at high temperatures. This is what allows them to freeze faster.
If this scientific assumption turns out to be correct, then the discovery could have implications for everyday life. For example, this principle will be applied when cooling electronic devices.
Cold water heats up faster than hot water
Researchers who studied the cause of the Memba effect also made this discovery. Unsurprisingly, the phenomenon has been called the inverse Memba effect.
People are associated with mushrooms
A 2015 study by the University of Cambridge suggests that humanity may have evolved through the genes that plants contained.
Based on similar evidence, the researchers agree that about 1% of the human genome could have been taken from plants, according to The Telegraph.
Human genes have many base pairs of DNA
Scientists estimate that human genes contain more than 3 billion base pairs of DNA and more than 25,000 genes in the genome. A copy of this genome exists in each of the 10 trillion cells in the human body.
If all this DNA were lined up, it would cover the distance between the Earth and the Sun 100 times.
Diamond rain on other planets
Diamonds are by far the best friend of the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists have studied the conditions under which Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Saturn should produce diamonds.
The atmospheres on all four planets are under such extreme pressure that they can crystallize carbon atoms and turn them into diamonds. Scientists managed to create the right conditions in the laboratory to prove that this is happening on Neptune and Uranus.
Another group of researchers believes that up to 2.2 million pounds of diamonds can fall annually on one part of Saturn. The atmosphere of this planet was studied by American scientists Mona Delitsky and Kevin Beitos. According to them, diamond rain on this planet can occur quite often, while Saturn does not spend any resources.
You can make the ball fly
Everyone saw how the ball of football players or tennis players flies along a strange trajectory? What is the reason the ball zigzags in the air?
This effect was discovered by the German physicist Heinrich Magnus in 1853. The essence of the phenomenon lies in the fact that the ball, when rotating, creates a vortex air field around itself, which provokes the appearance of a transverse force that changes the direction of flight. The Magnus Effect makes playing tennis and soccer much easier.
Water can exist in three states at the same time
This effect is called "triple boiling", and at this temperature water exists simultaneously as a gas, a liquid and a solid. This requires special conditions, so don't even think about trying this at home.
Only one species of mammals has wings
These mammals are bats. While flying squirrels can jump from trees and glide, they cannot fly like bats.
Helium can counteract gravity
When helium cools to an extreme temperature of -460 ° F, or -273 ° C, it turns into a superfluid gas, meaning it can flow without friction. It can spread to the top and sides of the glass. Helium is able to penetrate molecules and even seep through cracks in a container.
Solar flares are very powerful
The energy released by solar flares is equivalent to the simultaneous explosions of atomic bombs of 100 megatons. It is good that the Earth's atmosphere protects our world from their radiation.
Belching is not possible in outer space
When belching food on Earth, gravity traps the food solids and liquid you just ate, so only gas comes out of your mouth.
In the absence of gravity, the gas cannot separate from liquids and solids, so belching is impossible.
About half of the human body is bacteria
It's right. According to a 2014 study, the human body is made up of 39 trillion bacteria and 30 trillion human cells.
For trillions of the smallest forms, the human body is home. Professor Roy Slitor believes that the human body is 90% microbes. After four years of careful research, he came to the conclusion that the real role of the population of bacteria in the human body is not taken into account by science.
Our relationship with single-celled creatures is so close that scientists with progressive views on life view humans and the bacteria that inhabit it as a single superorganism.
“Today bacteria are a virtual organ, the waste products of which are much larger than that of the liver,” says Dr. Slitor.
Men are more prone to color blindness than women
Among the diseases of people, there are those associated with gender. Among them, color blindness should be noted. The essence of the disease lies in the inability to distinguish between colors such as red and green. The disease is based on the genetic characteristics of men and women.
The National Eye Institute says the genes responsible for the most common type of blindness are found on the X chromosome. Even if women have genes on one of the two X chromosomes, a properly functioning gene on the other compensates for this loss. If men inherit a gene on their only X chromosome, then they are color blind.
Man is unable to imagine what most of the universe looks like
About 96% of the universe is dark energy and dark matter, which defy human definition. Scientists believe that this can be explained by the fact that the particles that make up these substances do not interact with ordinary matter or light.
Despite the fact that scientific discoveries about space are constantly improving, the truth is that it is impossible to draw conclusions about phenomena that are inaccessible to our visual perception.
Maya Muzashvili