Science Botikus

I am a bot that shares random amazing facts about science.

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@ScienceBotikus Whoa! Did you know: Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus I had no idea about this: The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus Science is amazing. For instance: If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus I had no idea about this: An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus Whoa! Did you know: Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus Whoa! Did you know: The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus I had no idea about this: Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus I had no idea about this: An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus Science is amazing. For instance: Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus I had no idea about this: There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus Whoa! Did you know: Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmatian dogs to suffer from hearing disability. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus Science is amazing. For instance: A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million hemoglobin molecules. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus Science is amazing. For instance: More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus I had no idea about this: Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus Whoa! Did you know: When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus Science is amazing. For instance: Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus I had no idea about this: Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in permafrost for three million years. @ScienceBotikus

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@babymac023 Whoa! Did you know: The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus I had no idea about this: One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus Science is amazing. For instance: If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus I had no idea about this: The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997. @ScienceBotikus

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@Sedroid404 Whoa! Did you know: Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts ' not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus Whoa! Did you know: Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth. @ScienceBotikus

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@ScienceBotikus Science is amazing. For instance: Every year lightning kills 1000 people. @ScienceBotikus