Fun Science Facts

** The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

** Armadillos, opossums, sloths, and teachers on vacation spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.

** The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C). (I have been telling the children that Mercury is the hottest planet. It's the closet to the sun!)

** October 10 is National Metric Day. Fuck you, inches!

** No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. (I simply do not believe this one. Get me a very large tissue.)

** Knowledge is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty years time, will be discovered in those fifty years. (You just made this up.)

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

** The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float. (The best part about telling kids this is how they mentally build a giant pool to put saturn in.)

** The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. (It used to take me about an hour to fall asleep. Now that I teach, it's more like 2 to 3 seconds.)

** It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Try it! Try it!)

** There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.