What are some lesser known science facts?

• Some metals are so reactive that they explode on contact with water.

• The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer

• In 2.3 billion years it will be too hot for life to exist on Earth.

• The earth has lost half of its wildlife in the last 40 years.

• In 42 minutes of free fall, you can cover the distance from one pole of Earth to the other.

• Water can boil and freeze at the same time.

• Playing a moderate amount of mind training games is actually good for you. It boosts your memory and multitasking skills.

• Lasers can get trapped in a waterfall.

• A single solar flare can release the equivalent energy of millions of 100-megaton atomic bombs.

• Earthquakes can turn water into gold.

• Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise.

• You’d be better off surviving a grenade on land rather than underwater.

• If you spin a ball as you drop it, it flies (Due to the Magnus effect).

• Animals use Earth’s magnetic field for orientation.

• Oxygen has a color. (In its liquid and solid forms, however, it looks pale blue).

• Ants are capable of carrying objects 50 times their own body weight.

• The World’s oldest known creature, a mollusc, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.

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