• Question: what amasing facts do you know? the scientist who knows the most intresting fact in will vote for

    Asked by rubsyrosy to David, Helen, Ian, rhysphillips, Sarah on 22 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by lilcherrycheeks.
    • Photo: David Corne

      David Corne answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      See here:
      http://www.topfive.com/amazingtruefacts.shtml
      I “know” all these, since I store facts on google, leaving my brain free to do science. I think the most interesting is that “Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.”

    • Photo: Rhys Phillips

      Rhys Phillips answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      – that every plane gets hit by lightning about once every year
      – that a lightning bolt is hotter than the surface of the sun!

    • Photo: Helen Fletcher

      Helen Fletcher answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      They used to give children who had been a bit pale, tired and sickly an iron supplement called “iron bitters”. The ingredients for iron-bitters was iron, sugar and cocaine. It did make children a bit more chatty and lively but this was probably NOT due to the iron…
      http://www.cocaine.org/iron-bitters.html

    • Photo: Ian van der Linde

      Ian van der Linde answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      I think the fact that Jellyfish are immortal is pretty amazing!

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