STUNNING SCIENCE

• 1. There is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times
•  2. The average human body carries ten times more bacterial cells than human cells
•  3. It takes a photon up to 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth
•  4. At over 2,000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth
• 5. There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean
• 6. The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in a lifetime
• 7. When Helium is cooled to almost absolute zero (-460°F or -273°C, the lowest temperature possible), it becomes a liquid with surprising properties: it flows against gravity and will start running up and over the lip of a glass container!
•  8. If Betelgeuse exploded, transitioning from the red supergiant stage to supernova, it would light our sky continuously for two months. It could happen anytime — within a couple of thousand years, tomorrow or even now 9. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body
• 10. The known universe is made up of 50,000,000,000 galaxies.