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Science Fun Fact #5!

Did you know bananas are slightly radioactive? They contain potassium, which makes it only slightly radioactive. Despite that, you’d need to eat around 10 million at one time to die from it.

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Science Fun Facts | WonderWorks Online

1. Bananas are radioactive – Bananas contain potassium, and since potassium decays, that makes the yellow fruit slightly radioactive. But do

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Science Fun Fact #4!

Did you know that the human stomach can dissolve razor blades in as little as 2 hours? This is because your stomach acids pH scale is around 1 or 2, which is incredibly strong. The pH scale is ranked from the lowest numbers being the strongest acids and the higher numbers being weaker. Any value above 7 is basic (weaker) and any value below 7 is acidic (stronger.) For example, drain cleaner is an example of an extremely basic 14 on the pH scale and battery acid is a very strong 0.

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25 Amazing Science Facts That Are Weird, Wild and True

These weird, wild and totally true science facts prove that reality is often stranger—and a lot more interesting—than fiction.

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Science Fun Fact #3!

Did you know that your tears kill bacteria? In 1922, Nobel Prize winner Alexander Fleming (who made penicillin) discovered that tears are jam packed with enzymes called lysozymes. Each molecule in these lysozymes contain a set of jaws that bite and attack bacterial invaders. They chew through bacteria cell walls, breaking a hole in it. This causes the bacteria to explode!

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How Tears Go 'Pac-Man' To Beat Bacteria

Each tear you shed contains an army of enzymatic Pac-Men, ready to chase down and gobble up germs before they infect the sensitive tissues a

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Science Fun Fact #2!

Did you know that Uranus’s rotation is almost completely on its side? This causes Uranus to be the planet with one of the most extreme seasons in the Milky Way, the winters being about 21 Earth years long. The reason for its odd tilt is thought to be because an Earth sized object had hit it long ago.

Uranus: Facts - NASA Science

Uranus is a very cold and windy world. The ice giant is surrounded by 13 faint rings and 28 small moons. Uranus rotates at a nearly 90-degre

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Science Fun Fact #1!

Did you know that your liver can actually regenerate even if 90% of it is removed? This is because when the blood flow to your liver is reduced, like if it is removed, then the remaining healthy part of the liver compensates and gets bigger. At first the cells that grow aren’t mature, but in even just a few days they work just as well as the liver did before! This can prove very vital for cancer of the liver surgeries.

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Liver regeneration: How the liver’s ability to recover plays into liver cancer surgery

When the liver is partially removed, the remaining portion can compensate and regain full function. Surgical oncologist Ching-Wei Tzeng, M.D