Weird Science Facts: A List Made from 27 of the Weirdest Facts
This is going to be weird and interesting. Are you looking for strange and weird science facts? You are going to see facts that you never would have thought of like pilots’ licenses given to Santa Claus legally. We are going to take a small break from our usual article style and type of topic today to look at a really long list of weird science facts. Let’s get into the good stuff!
Some mountains actually have snow on top of them that are the color pink and that some people say tastes just like watermelon. Some of these mountains are located in California and are called sierra Nevada’s.
Back when photography was first invented, instead of saying cheese, for pictures people would say the word prunes when posing.
Over 90% of all of the people in the world live north of the equator
The heart of a blue whale is as large as a compact car.
In the year 1887 the largest recorded snowflake fell in the state of Montana. It was reported to be around the size of an average frisbee.
Our brains perform more calculations per second then the most powerful supercomputer is currently available to in 2022. Not only this but they compute faster and more on average by more than 99.5%.
The reason for lines down the center of roads is due to Edward Hines that noticed milk leaking from transportation wagons. He found it to be a great and novel idea to make the inclusion of these lines, a permanent aspect of roadways.
The amount of sweating that a driver can do in one race of NASCAR is reported to be up to around 10 pounds.
People with blue eyes have the same exact gene sequencing for eyecolor. This means that every person on earth with blue eyes at some point down the line in their lineage share ancestry.
Interrobang is actually the name that is given to question marks and exclamation points.
The substances and construction of Doritos makes for good fire kindling. The chemicals in which they are made of are actually highly flammable and burn for a decent time period.
Between the years of 1912 and 1948 art in the form of painting, sculpture creating, and musical instrument playing was actually considered an Olympic sport. They were included in the games and people would compete in these categories during the Olympics.
Do you know the black boxes on airplanes? The color of these boxes is not actually the color black. They are colored fluorescent orange, sort of like hunters’ orange. This is so if authorities ever have to go looking for them, it will be easier to find than a box-colored dark. They can be hidden in the shadows or under objects.
Around 60% of the human brain is actually comprised of adipose tissue. This means technically most of your brain is made of fat. So if anyone ever says that you have a fat head, so do they.
Up until the mid-1950s stop signs were painted yellow. This lasted for over 30 years.
One piece of ravioli has a name. The name for this single piece of ravioli is actually raviolo. Not only this, but a single piece of spaghetti has a similar name, and it is called Spaghetto.
The GPS in your phone and otherwise costs over $2 million every day in operational costs. This means when you ask Siri how to get to the nearest gas station. You are using a $2 million a day piece of technology.
In the late 1920s, the government actually publicly released a promise that airway lights would stay on on Christmas Eve for Santa Claus
There has actually been an airplane to successfully complete a full flight running on cooking oil. The airlines name was Qantas Airways, and it was the first of its kind.
In the animal kingdom research has shown that the bigger the brain inside of the animal, the longer the yawn they will have. So, if you yawn all day long every day, and really long yawns at that, this means you have a big brain. Are you reading this Chelsea?
In New Guinea, there are over 800 different languages that are indigenous to the area. This may exist as the location with the most indigenous languages known to man.
The first photograph ever taken was in the mid-1820s. It took over eight hours to complete the process to have the final product.
In ancient Rome, men would throw apples at women to show their adoration. If the woman would catch the apple, then that means that she shared the same level of adoration for that man.
There are neural pathways in your body that travel the entire length of your body and send messages to and from your brain add up to 260 mph.
The reason that you can go bobbing for apples, and they float on top of the water is due to the fact that they are more than 20% air on the inside.
When a heard of Buffalo is choosing where they are going to move next as a whole, they actually vote on the decision. Members of the herd stand up and look in a direction and lay back down. This is considered to be a chosen vote and it’s taken into consideration by the rest of the herd after they make their vote. The area that gets the most looks from Buffalo that stand up, hence, votes, is usually the next area that the herd of buffalo decide to move to.
In around the year, 1100 the University of Oxford was established and opened. In the early 1400s, the Aztec empire was built. This means that the university of oxford is actually older by comparison.
The average grizzly bear has a bite force that is able to crush the average bowling ball.
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There are some of the weirdest and coolest facts here in this article. I didn’t know most of them before doing the research to write this list. Hopefully you found some new and interesting facts along the way as well. Weird science facts are one of the most interesting ways to pass time.
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