{Adaption A} 05: Top 10 Facts about Weird Science - The Lists

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10. One oxygen molecule can be breathed by hundreds of people and animals.

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9. Scientists have created an Oxygen particle that allows a person to live without breathing.

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8. The average person produces enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

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7. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

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6. There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on Earth.

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5. Botox is the world’s most deadly toxin and is produced by a type of bacteria.

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4. Until the 1960s, injecting a species of frog with a woman’s urine was the only reliable pregnancy test.

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3. In the 1930s, an American doctor tried to bring dead animals back to life by injecting them with chemicals and rocking them on a seesaw.

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2. A headless chicken lived for 18 months.

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1. A full head of human hair is strong enough to support the weight of two elephants.

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The Human Body

1. A full head of human hair is strong enough to support the weight of two elephants.

2. Until the 1960s, injecting a species of frog with a woman’s urine was the only reliable pregnancy test.

3. One oxygen molecule can be breathed by hundreds of people and animals.

4. Over the course of their lifetime, a human sheds about 40lbs of skin.

5. Scientists have invented particles, which would make us able to live without breathing.

6. The average person produces enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

Bacteria

7. The strongest creatures on Earth are the gonorrhoea bacteria.

8. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

9. There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on Earth.

10. Botox is the world’s most deadly toxin and is produced by a type of bacteria.

Science experiments / accidents

11. Scientists can make diamonds from tequila.

12. In the 1930s, an American doctor tried to bring dead animals back to life by injecting them with chemicals and rocking them on a seesaw.

13. Scientists have created an Oxygen particle that allows a person to live without breathing.

14. A headless chicken lived for 18 months.