Interesting cool facts on science

**Spiral** · 06-11-2009, 09:25 PM

interesting cool facts on science

You burn more calories eating celery than celery has in it.
People that smoke a pack of cigarettes every day puts a halfcup of tar in his or her's lungs each year.
All baby armadillos in a litter are geneticly identical, derived from a single fertilized egg.

Armadillos are also the only other animal which can contract leprosy.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other colour.
Koalas are teh only animals besides humans and other primates that have fingerprints.
Just like there are carnivorous plants, there are carnivorous sponges, which trap passing prey with tentacles and engulf them, eventually digesting them. As with carnivory in plants, the sponges resort to this method in environments where their primary nutrient source (particulat matter filtered from the water) is not availible in sufficient quantities.
Everest is not the highest Mountain, K2 is higher. By about 30 feet I believe.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Besides humans, the elephant is the only animal that can cry.
The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
Company in Brazil (Suite Vollard) constructed a building in which each floor can rotate 360 degrees. Each building has 11 apartments and each apartment can spin individually in any direction. One rotation takes a full hour, but apartment owner can set rotation speed through apartment control panel. Facades are made of three different types of glass which give wonderful effects when building spins during the sunset. Cost of each apartment is $US 300,000.00.
Smoking is the second major cause of death worldwide.
The New Zealand Kiwi bird's egg makes up 1/3 its volume.
The Ostrich's eye is larger than its brain.
The praying mantis initiates the mating process by ripping the males head off.
a cockroach can live two weeks without its head... then it starves to death.
while in the womb, embryonic sharks fight eachother. Only one shark is ever born at a time.
The East Japan Railway Company (JR-East), as part of research aimed at developing more environmentally friendly train stations, is testing an experimental system that produces electricity as people pass through ticket gates.
In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who in a town could fart the loudest and longest. Winners were awarded many prizes and received great recognition