10 Noteworthy Science Facts
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10 Noteworthy Science Facts
The universe is estimated to contain 2 trillion galaxies. Our Milky Way galaxy alone has over 100 billion stars.
The human brain contains around 86 billion neurons and trillions of neural connections. It's the most complex object in the known universe.
It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light from the Sun to reach Earth. This means we see the Sun as it was 8 minutes ago.
The average adult human skeleton is made up of 206 bones. Newborn babies have about 270 bones which fuse together as they grow.
It would take 1.3 million Earths to fill up the Sun. The Sun's mass makes up 99.8% of the total mass of our solar system.
On average, the human heart will beat around 3 billion times over a lifetime. An adult heart pumps around 5 liters of blood per minute.
Jupiter has 79 confirmed moons, the most of any planet in our solar system. Four of them - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto - are larger than Earth's moon.
The fastest land animal is the cheetah which can reach speeds up to 120 km/h in short bursts. That's faster than most cars on the highway.
The Higgs Boson particle, detected in 2012, helps explain how fundamental particles obtain mass. It was the last piece of the Standard Model of particle physics.
The average adult human has around 60,000 thoughts per day, around 70% of which are believed to be negative.
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