Scientific studies can be really boring, but some results may be hilarious. Useless, but funny and even interesting.
These studies were born, probably, out of boredom or someone simply had too much free time. However, the results are surprising.
Blood vessels from the human body have a total length of almost 100.000 km, enough to go around the Earth 2 times and a half.
Scientists like to make calculations, and sometimes we don’t understand why. For example, the chances of a human being hit by a meteorite is of one at 9.300 years.
If we would take a piece of rock out of a neutron star, small like a thimble, we wouldn’t be able to pick it up because it weights over 100 million tons.
Mother nature doesn’t need money to generate and explosion, it just needs a hurricane. Studies have proven that the power of this phenomenon is that of a bomb of 8.000 megatons.
Over 700 million people are infested with the parasite worm Ancylostoma duodenale.
Not only cars can reach high speed. It seems that you can do this with a bike, also. Cyclist Fred Rompelberg reached the speed of 268 km per hour.
Because of the fact that technology is so advanced, humanity has the capacity to produce a laser 100 times more powerful than the Sun.
We still don’t know why, but 65% of people with Down syndrome are left-handed.
The pine trees from Finnish woods have roots that go almost 50 meters deep.
If we would extract all the salt from every ocean and sea, we would be able to cover each continent with a thick layer of 15 meters.
Each ear, every person accidentally swallows around 430 insects.
Rye can have roots of 643 km.
Butterflies feel the taste with their feet, and that’s how they decide if a leaf is eatable.
Polar bears can reach a speed of 40 km/h when they run, and they can jump up to 2 meters.
In space, there is an interstellar cloud named Sagittarius B2, which has an enormous quantity of alcohol in it.