Weird Science Facts

The moon is moving away from the Earth at a tiny, although measurable, rate every year. 85 million years ago it was orbiting the Earth about 35 feet from the planet's surface.

The star Antares is 60,000 times larger than our sun. If our sun were the size of a softball, the star Antares would be as large as a house.

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.

Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls has caused the falls to recede approximately seven miles over the past 10,000 years.

In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity and tears can't flow.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.

Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to operate a television for three hours.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch a year. When it was designed engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

There is enough fuel in full jumbo jet tank to drive an average car four times around the world.

Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals do. 

You are more likely to be infected by flesh-eating bacteria than you are to be struck by lightning.

According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.