Science — Earth and Space — Dumb Facts

• The rings of Saturn are made of ice chunks; some as small as an ice cube and some are as big as a house.
• A diamond is the hardest natural substance.
• Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
• Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.
• Scientists think the universe is 15 billion years old.
• Earth’s oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water.
• In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow!
• All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakesperean charcters.
• Saturn isn’t the only planet with rings: Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have them, too.
• The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire U.S for three years.
• By some estimates, there are about a million earthquakes a day, although most are too small to be felt by even the most sensitive.
• The largest iceberg ever found was 208 miles long and 60 miles wide. That’s bigger than Massachusetts.
• It takes light 8 minutes to trave lfrom the sun.
• The sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth.
• Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.