useless science facts

Speleology is the study of Caves

Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died on 4 July 1934 of radiation poisoning.

No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

To 'crack' a whip, the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound.

Alcohol is added to soap to make it clear.

According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.

For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.

The billionth digit of pi is 9

Salt is the only rock humans can eat

If you add up the numbers1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050

If each count were one second long, it would take about twelve days to count to a million and thirty-two years to count to a billion.

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum

A normal rain drop falls at about 7 miles per hour

Human hair is estimated to grow at 0.00000001 miles per hour.

An enneahedron is solid with nine faces.