10 Facts Of Science Which Are So True And Bizarre, That You Will Have Problem Believing Them

By Jatin Sharma, 9 April 2017

Google is the world’s largest search engine, and one of the best online services provider of email, documents, online storage and many more things. Google receives more than 3.5 billion searches in a day and over 1.2 trillion searches in a year. With such stats, it is believable that 15% of daily queries received by Google in a day, have never been repeated for 15 years.

1 London took its time to get populated

London had a population of 8.6 million in 1939. After that, population of London fell drastically as UK, USA and Russia defended other countries from Germany, Italy and Japan and other allies. Germany and Japan bombed the living hell out of London and diseases, war and infections caused the city’s population to fall to 4.5-4 million. It just touched the mark of 8.8 million only in 2015.

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2 Probability of sharing birthdays

Fact is that if you meet 70 people in a room, the probability of you sharing your birthday with another person is 99.99%. Mathematically, the proportion to calculate this possibility, you just need to multiply these proportions: 365/365 * 364/365 * 363/365, etc.

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3 Fastest time to cover distance of one pole to another

If you are in a free fall, you can reach from one pole of Earth to the other pole, in just 38-42 minutes, according to redditer and scientists. Now that is very less time to get from one point on Earth to the exact opposite point on Earth.

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4 Earth being destroyed

It is astonishing to know that in the greed of game and in name of sport; humans have killed more than 40% of the wildlife, including animals and plants. Despite humanity’s efforts, Earth is losing its wildlife at a rapid pace.

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5 Genghis Khan has left quite a family

Mongol emperor Genghis Khan has lots of women in harem. He chose multiple women, from each part of world he conquered and is said to have had multiple babies with all the women in his harem. That is the reason that 7-8% of all men from around 17 areas of Asia, share their DNA with one of the most feared conquerors in the world.

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6 Earth beats Milky Way

Milky Way is said to have close to 100 billion stars. But you won’t believe that Earth outnumbers the Milky Way by the number of trees it has on its surface. Earth has 30 times more trees on its surface. Just think, how many trees we had just 100 years ago?

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7 USA has something good at last

An interesting fact has come out recently from USA, which will warm the heart of everyone who has hopes for USA. Normally USA is seen as the land of people who are obese, stupid and who love fast foods. But in fact, USA had more public libraries than number of McDonald's restaurants in the country.

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8 The illusion of time

You will be amazed to know that Cleopatra lived closer to the time of moon landing, than to the construction of pyramids, despite ruling the great dynasty of Egypt for years. The Great pyramid of Cheops, which is the largest of all pyramids in Egypt was built in 2540 BC, while Cleopatra lived in 69-30 BC and man landed on moon in 1969. Do the math.

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9 Sad situation of tigers

The growing number of tigers in the wild is very good news for all animal lover and wildlife enthusiasts. But it is a sad fact that there are more numbers of tigers owned by private owners in US, than there are in the wild. Often this tigers are treated as normal cats by their owners and are mistreated.

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10 A bizarre farming fact

Though environmentalists are blaming release of CO2 fumes and gases from industries and other factors from Earth’s rising temperature. But the truth is that the methane gas emitted by the livestock all over the world, cause more damage to the Earth’s atmosphere, than the number of cars in the world.

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