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2. Quiz Humans Animals Jokes Weather Space

3. Insects Polar Bears Ocean Animals Animals Dogs

4. Did you know… The biggest spider in the world lives in South America and eats birds. Ants never sleep! A butterfly has to have a body temperature greater than 86 degrees to be able to fly. Ants can carry over 50 times their own body weight with their mouths! More!

5. An oyster can change it’s gender! If a lobster loses a eye or a claw, it can grow a new one! A starfish can turn it’s stomach inside out! Australia’s box jellyfish has toxins more potent than the venom in cobras. A person who is stung can die within minutes. More!

6. Did you know… Polar bears can smell seals who are 20 miles away! Polar bears can eat as much as 10% of their body weight in less one hour! If you spray an antiseptic on a polar bear, it’s fur will turn purple! When a polar bear cub is born, it cannot see or hear. It takes about one month for the cub to gain those senses! Back

7. Did you know… Bloodhounds have been used since the 1600’s for tracking criminals! The Basenji is the only dog that can’t bark! There is a doggie disco every year in Italy where owners can dance with their dogs! Back

8. Neptune & Pluto Venus Jupiter 10th Planet? Astronauts

9. Did you know… One Neptune year equals 165 Earth years! Sometimes, Neptune and Pluto change making Neptune the farthest away from the sun for a few years! Neptune was the first planet to be discovered by mathematicians! Pluto is the only planet that has not been visited by a spacecraft! Scientists have argued for years over whether to even consider Pluto a planet! Back

10. Name: 2003 UB313 This new planet is almost 10 billion miles from the sun! It was announced in July 2005! UB313 Sun 2003 UB313 has a moon that orbits the planet! Back Artist depiction

11. Did you know… The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a hurricane-like storm system. It is large enough that two Earths could fit across it! A Jupiter day is only about 10 hours long. Jupiter has the shortest day of any planet in the Solar System! The most volcanically active body in the solar system besides the Earth is Jupiter's moon Io! Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System and is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto! Back

12. Did you know… A Venus day is approximately 243 Earth days long! The atmospheric pressure you would experience on the surface of Venus is about the same as diving 3000 feet in the oceans! That is about 90 times the pressure at the Earth's surface! All of the major features on Venus are named after famous women in history and mythology! Venus is almost the same size as Earth and is covered in deadly poisonous clouds! Back

13. Did you know… Story Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown into space on board all five Space Shuttles, including Challenger! The first American to eat food in space was Scott Carpenter aboard the Mercury spacecraft Aurora 7 in 1962 Ron Evans, pilot of Apollo 17, circled the moon alone while his fellow astronauts went to the surface. This makes him the last astronaut to fly in space alone in a spacecraft! Astronauts sleep in sleeping bags attached to the wall! Back Take a weird astronaut facts quiz and see if you can be fooled!

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15. Even though lightening bolts are hot, the sun is still hotter! True! False!

16. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop! True! False!

17. Starfish never sleep?!? True! False!

18. There are now 10 planets?!? True! False!

19. Click here to read some funny science jokes!

20. Q: What's the most important thing to learn in chemistry? A: Never lick the spoon. Q: What is a tornado's favorite game? A: Twister! A mushroom walked into a bar. The bar tender said, "Get out of here! We don't serve your kind." "Hey, what's the problem?" "Just get out of here. We don't serve mushrooms." The mushroom in anguish says, "Why not? I'm a fun guy." MORE JOKES!

21. Q. What do you do when you find a dead chemist? A. Barium. Q. What is the purpose of a doctor? A. Helium Teacher: What is the formula for water? Student: H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O Teacher: That's not what I taught you. Student: But you said the formula for water was...H to O. MORE JOKES!

22. Q: How do you ask a dinosaur to lunch? A: Tea Rex? Q: What's as big as a dinosaur but weighs nothing? A: Her shadow! Q: What kind of materials do dinosaurs use for the floor of their homes? A: Rep Tiles MORE JOKES!

23. Q: What do you call it when it rains chickens and ducks? A: Foul (fowl) weather. Q: What did the thermometer say to the graduated cylinder? A: "You may have graduated but I've got many degrees" Q: What did the Nuclear Physicist have for lunch? A: Fission Chips. Q:What is horsepower? A:The power it takes to drag a horse a given distance in a given amount of time. BACK TO JOKES

24. Hurricanes Tornadoes Volcanoes Earthquakes Snow Rain

25. An average raindrop falls 600 feet per minute while the average snowflake falls at about 11 feet per minute. No two snowflakes look the same Snowflakes come from clouds, which are really just big clusters of water vapor. Back

26. There have also been rains of blood which have been reported all over the world ever since biblical times. All sorts of animals and plants have showered down during thunderstorms. In a five-month span between 1987 and 1988, small pink frogs rained from the sky over parts of Great Britain. Next

27. In 1859, a shower of fish fell from the sky in Glamorgan, Wales. The fish covered an area the size of three tennis courts. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute. Lightning bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun (about 50,000 ºF, 27,760 ºC). Back

28. All hurricanes are born over water, and their life span is about 10 days. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined. A hurricane has a calm 'eye' in the centre, because no matter how strong the rotating winds are around the centre, there must always be a point where there is no wind at all. Back

29. About 40 volcanoes in the continental USA have had activity within the last 10 years. Visit http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/movies/movie.html to see real volcano videos! About 1,500 volcanoes are located on the ground with 10,000 located in the sea. Most volcanoes are between 10,000 and 100,000 years old. Back

30. The width of a tornado can range from less than ten yards to more than a mile. The most frequent month for a tornado to occur in the United States is in May. Back

31. In 1964, an earthquake hit Prince William Sound in Alaska. It was so strong that people in Hawaii could feel the aftershock. Seconds before a quake, dogs and cats might act up, as they seem to be able to feel the trembling before we do. Thousands of quakes occur across the US each year, but almost all of them are too small to feel. Back

32. The Heart Bones The Head Everything The Human Body The Nose The Eyes The Stomach Skin The Mouth

33. The Heart The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week. Your heart beats 37,000,000 times in a year. During your life it will beat two and a half billion times Back

34. Every single day you lose as many as 100 strands of hair, which is about 36,500 per year. 85% of your brain is water. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The Head Next

35. Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream. Your brain is more active and thinks more at night than during the day. The average person has at least seven dreams a night. The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds. Back

36. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop - even your heart If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open A sneeze can blast out of your nose at speeds greater than 100 mph The Nose Back

37. If saliva can not dissolve something, you can not taste it It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown The Mouth The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself Back

38. You blink about 84 million times a year. The Eyes When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dialate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate. Back

39. It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus The human body can survive longer without food than without sleep. While starvation takes a few weeks, a person would die after 10 days without sleep The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades The Stomach Back

40. Bones Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2 - 6 years old Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we only have 206 in our bodies. Back

41. Skin The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds per year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin Every square inch of your body is populated by about 32 million bacteria Back

42. A team of medical experts in Virginia contend that you’re more likely to catch the common cold virus by shaking hands than by kissing A simple, moderately severe sunburn damages the blood vessels to such an extent that it takes four to fifteen months for them to return to their normal condition Other Wacky Facts In a hot climate, you can sweat as much as 3 gallons of water a day Next

43. Laughing lowers the levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day, while adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart Back People have legs of slightly different lengths

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47. More Facts! The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour. The fastest mammal - the dolphin - can swim up to 35 miles per hour! Fish talk to each other! Some of them communicate by making noises in their throats by rasping their teeth, others use their swim bladders to make sounds! A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew yet its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail! Back

48. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a   human jumping the length of a football field! Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a cork flying out of a bottle than by a poisonous spider? Butterflies taste with their feet! Back