Science is an ever advancing branch and with more and more facts revealed on a daily basis, our understanding of the world around us changes drastically. Here are four scientific facts which you might find hard to believe.
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Lungs = Tennis court ?
It is true that the surface area of a pair of lungs is equal to that of a tennis court. Lungs are a pair of spongy air filled organs used for gas exchange between blood and air. Lungs have such huge surface area, because to keep the body properly supplied with oxygen, our air intake must have the speed of at least 160 litres per hour. Lungs has thousands of branching bronchi and tiny grape-like alveoli.
Biggest organism is a mushroom ?
Are u thinking about Blue whale as the biggest organism ?It is important that you understand how scientists define organisms. Organism is set of genetically identifiable cells that can communicate or can coordinate between themselves for common purpose. Therefore biggest organism is a mushroom- a specific honey fungus measuring 3.8 kilometres across in the Blue mountains in Oregon. It is only very recently that the scientists have discovered how big they are. It is as big as the size of 1665 football fields.
All humans = An apple
It is true that if you remove all the empty spaces from all the atoms in the world, then the population of this world could fit comfortably in to an apple. This is because atoms are 99.9 percent empty space.
Universe = Raspberry ?
In 2009, scientists were able to find out the presence of ethyl formate in a dust cloud at the centre of milky way. It is also the compound responsible for providing flavour to raspberries, so guess what, space tastes like raspberries.
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