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A historical look at science and all the cool things that happened. Quizzing you on advancements and gains in the scientific community with some outlandish stuff on top of that. See how much you know!
Which of these is an animal whose female has thicker skin than the male?
Turtle
Tiger
Otter
Shark
Female sharks have thicker skins than males! Scientists think it is because males have a tendency to bite the females while mating. Although sharks are known for being solo travelers, in February of 2016, researchers reported that more than 10,000 blacktop sharks were lurking together off the Florida coast.
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What is the average depth of the ocean?
13,025 feet
12,080 feet
The ocean is 12,080 feet deep on average. That is about eight Empire State Buildings stacked on top of the other. The deepest part of the ocean, however, is about 36,200 feet. That is closer to 25 Empire State Buildings.
14,500 feet
9,607 feet
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How many bones does the human skeleton have?
198
266
206
The adult human skeleton has 206 bones. The smallest bone is the stapes or stirrup, the innermost of three bones in the middle ear; and the femur is the longest and strongest. Babies are born with 270 bones but some fuse together as their bodies grow.
211
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Why do Madagascar hissing cockroaches hiss?
Scare predators
To surprise females
Challenge other cockroaches
The Madagascar cockroach hisses to challenge other cockroaches to a fight and also when trying to attract a mate. They hiss by forcing gas through tiny breathing pores called spiracles on its thorax and abdomen.
As a digestive aid
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How much would a 150 lb person weigh on the moon?
25 lbs
Gravity on the moon is a sixth of what it is on Earth. Someone who weighs 150 lbs on earth would only be 25 on the moon. Its gravity is much lower because the moon is only 1% the mass of the earth. If you were to stand on Jupiter you'd weigh more than twice as much as you do on earth.
35 lbs
50 lbs
100 lbs
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An ancient way to wipe your butt?
Leaves
Bread
A sponge
Roman philosopher Seneca, who lived from 4 B.C. to A.D. 65, recorded the use of a sponge attached to a stick that did the job. Between uses, the tool (called a tersorium) sat in a bucket of salt water or vinegar water.
Your hand
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How many gallons of water can camels drink in 13 minutes?
30
Camels can drink 30 gallons of water in just 13 minutes. The water is stored in the camel bloodstream. Rather than water being stored in the fatty hump, it is used as a source of nourishment when food is scarce.
40
70
100
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Scientific name for the Central American salamander?
Bolatoglosser dolfine
Bolitoglossa dofleini
The scientific name for the Central American salamander is Bolitoglossa dofleini. It can extend its tongue more than half its body length in 7 milliseconds, that is 50 times faster than you can blink an eye.
Bolitoclasse delfeini
Bolitoglossa doplena
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Hottest recorded temperature on Earth?
146 degrees Fahrenheit
130 degrees Fahrenheit
136 degrees Fahrenheit
On September 13, 1922, the mercury soared to 136 degrees Fahrenheit in El Azizia, Libya. Scientists say this is the hottest temperature ever recorded on the planet, though high temperatures may have occurred where there are no measuring stations.
180 degrees Fahrenheit
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How many bacteria species does breast milk have?
700
The human body is full of friendly bacteria, we all have organisms on ou skin and in our guts that help keep our bodies healthy, effective, and active. Breast milk can have up to 700 different species of bacteria according to a study in 2013.
1000
500
400
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An animal with a venomous spur?
Bear
Platypus
The platypus isn't as cute and cuddly as one might think. The male has a venomous spur on its hind foot that is capable of dispensing a poison that can kill a medium-sized dog. Yikes!
Otter
Crow
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Weird action by the Catholic Church?
Shunning of its own people
Hosting violent matches for entertainment
Putting a cadaver on trial
The Catholic Church once put a dead Pope on trial. After Pope Formosus died in A.D. 896, his successor had him disinterred, dressed in papal robes and set up to face a huge list of political charges. Needless to say, the Pope lost.
Rules in regards to certain foods
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What is it called when you can't recognize faces?
Prosapognosia
Pragnosigia
Prollosposia
Prosopagnosia
Prosopagnosia is a disorder where people can't recognize faces. Faces are so important that humans have a brian area called the fusiform gyrus that specializes in recognizing them. Developmental problems or injuries to the fusiform can leave people clueless about how even their loved ones look.
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How strong can a blow be from a mantis shrimp?
50 pounds
200 pounds
Mantis shrimp are small but pack in a big punch! They can use their armored claws to strike at speeds of 74 feet per second delivering blows with 200 pounds of force behind them. The crustaceans are only about 4 inches long.
100 pounds
300 pounds
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Sea animal with great vision?
Scallops
Although you would not originally think this because we can't see them with the naked eye, scallops actually have excellent vision. They have around 100 simple eyes most of which are usually blue. Crazy, huh!?
Sea Spider
Crab
Shrimp
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By midway through pregnancy how much more blood do women have?
60%
20%
50%
When a women is pregnant not only is she growing a baby but she is also growing a support system for the fetus. Because of this, pregnant women by week 20 (halfway through their pregnancy) women have 50% more blood than they did before they conceived.
40%
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Where did the longest necked dinosaur live?
Libya
Africa
Thailand
China
The dinosaur with the longest neck for its body size is a sauropod dino that lived in what is now China. The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a Mamenchisaur specimen with a 60-foot-long total length, a shocking 30 feet of which is neck.
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Element that is liquid at room temperature?
Uranium
Mercury
Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at standard room temperature and pressure. This is because the electrons that spin around the nucleus of a mercury atom have weak links or bonds with other mercury atoms at room temperature.
Aluminum
Copper
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Animal with no stomach?
Shrimp
Crab
Scallop
Seahorse
Seahorses do not have stomachs, they only have intestines for the absorption of nutrients from food. Food passes through their digestive system rapidly, so they eat plankton and crustaceans almost constantly.
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Flower with blooms that can reach ten feet?
Sunflower
St. John's Wort
Corpse flower
Corpse flower, or scientifically Amprophophallus titanium, blooms with clusters of flowers that can reach 10 feet in height. These petals smell so much like rotting flesh that the plant is most commonly known as "corpse flower."
Calendula
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How many hours have humans spent playing World of Warcraft?
Over 6 million years
Yes collectively humans have spent longer playing World of Warcraft than we have existed as a species separate from chimpanzees. That is over 6 million years!
Over 10 million years
Over 2 million years
Over 7 million years
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Ecological foot print of two hamsters?
A TV
Two hamsters have the equivalent ecological footprint of a plasma TV. A dos has the same ecological footprint as two land cruisers, and a cat the same environmental effect as a Volkswagen Golf.
A car
A refrigerator
A microwave
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What animal did Henry III have?
A tiger
A polar bear
in 1251, Henry III was given a polar bear by the king of Norway. He kept it in the Tower of London, on a long chain so that it could swim in the Thames.
An alligator
An iguana
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What was the old method of pregnancy tests?
Inject female urine into an animal
until the 1960's, the only reliable pregnancy test was to inject a woman's urine into a female African clawed frog. If the woman was pregnant, the frog would ovulate within 12 hours.
Check for discoloration around nipples
Take a blood sample
Calculate percentage of sperm in the pee
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How many minutes would it take to jump through Earth?
About 40 minutes
About 33 minutes
About 67 minutes
About 42 minutes
If you drilled a tunnel straight through Earth and then jumped in, it would take you exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side. That is way faster than we initially thought!
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How many laps around the world does the average person walk in a lifetime?
5
3
The average person with a normal level of activity walks the equivalent of three times around the world in their lifetime. Especially active people walk about double that.
2
1
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How many bits of information per second do humans take in?
60,000
100
11 million
This number is totally baffling but the human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second. Something even crazier about this? We are only aware of about 40 at a time.
3 million
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How many bugs do we eat each year in our lifetime?
680
1020
120
430
The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their lifetime. EACH YEAR. That means that if we live to be 80 years old we will have eaten about 34,400 bugs in our lifetime.
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How many pounds of skin do we shed in our lifetime?
100 lbs
15 lbs
40 lbs
Each person sheds 40 lbs of skin in his or her lifetime. That is about 2 lbs of skin per year!
60 lbs
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How many sperm cells do males produce each second?
1,000
Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second. That is 86 million sperm cells each day and 602 million sperm cells per week!
200
600
5,000
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Which is a truly weird fact about human saliva?
It has a slight sparkle to it
It has an antibiotic
It has a painkiller
Human saliva contains a painkiller called opiorphin which is six times more powerful than morphine. It isn't produced in large enough quantities within our bodies for us to feel its effects. Also, we are accustomed to it so it wouldn't effect us like morphine anyways.
It can harm certain types of animals
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Name an animals liver that will kill you?
Polar bear
If you were to eat a polar bear liver, you will die. Human beings can not handle that much vitamin A at once, the result would kill us.
Dodo bird
Kakapo bird
Giraffe
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Which weird action do giraffes participate in?
Singing to mate
Neck swinging
Dancing
Head butting
Head butting is a thing for giraffes. The male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating. If she is, it's business time!
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Tallest known ape?
9 ft
16 ft
12 ft
10 ft
There was a 10 ft tall ape called Gigantopithecus that is now thought to be extinct. The fossil record indicates that they most likely buried their dead, which indicates a cognitive level that only one other ape possesses.
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How much does Hawaii move every year?
4 cm
40 cm
12 cm
7.5 cm
Hawaii moves closer to Alaska by 7.5 cm each year. Hawaii sits in the middle of the Pacific Plate, which is slowly drifting north-west towards the North American Plate, back to Alaska. The plates' pace is comparable to the speed at which our fingernails grow.
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