In case you never paid attention in 6th grade science class, here are 5 Weird Scientific Facts that will change the way you see things.s
1. Your DNA can stretch from the sun to Pluto and back 17 times
The genetic code holding your biological blueprint contains 23 DNA molecules, each containing from 500 thousand to 2.5 million nucleotide pairs. A DNA molecule about 5 cm long on average. With about 37 trillion cells in the human body, you can uncoil all the DNA in each cell and put them end to end for 2×1014 meters. That’s enough for 17 Pluto roundtrips.
2. Your blood can circle the Earth
Even though they sum up to a good distance, they won’t reach Pluto. However, the blood vessels in a human body can line-up to about 62,000 miles. Enough to circle our planet two and a half times.
3. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth
A coral reef consist of huge numbers of individual soft-bodied, invertebrate animals linked by tissue called coral polyps. The Great Barrier Reef consists of about 3000 reefs and 900 coral islands, divided by narrow passages,interlinked just beneath the surface of the Coral Sea.Spanning more than 2000 km and covering an area of some 350 000 sq km.
4. You accidentally eat 430 bugs each year
It is true, the average person eats between a half to one kilogram of bugs each year of their life by accident. The bugs are mostly consumed by accident with foods,mostly packaged and processed types.
5.Dead people can get goosebumps
Because you body cools down and dries up, your skin shrink and muscles you can get real goosebumps when you die. When skin shrinks it can also seem as your hair has grown. When tiny muscles contract or flex after death will cause hair to stand up. In other words, goosebumps.
