| 1 |
C |
Mosquitoes kill around 1 million people a year by passing
malaria on to them. |
| 2 |
C |
210 bones in the human body (although a newborn baby has around
350 bones !) |
| 3 |
A |
20 minutes sleep (and giraffes never lie down) |
| 4 |
B |
Around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body |
| 5 |
C |
Around 100 billion brain cells (although the adult human brain
only weighs around 1.3kg) |
| 6 |
B |
Most humans use parts of their brain that add up to the size of
an oven chip
(about 10% of your actual brain) |
| 7 |
D |
Willow bark (some forest tribes still chew willow bark to
relieve headaches and for general pain relief) |
| 8 |
D |
About 70% of our genetic material is the same as a Trees !
We also share 98.4% of our DNA with Chimpanzees and about 70% with
Slugs |
| 9 |
True |
There’s no gravity to separate the solids and liquids in their
stomachs, in space. |
| 10 |
False |
Glass is a “super-cooled” liquid. If you go to a church with
very old windows, you’ll see that they’re thicker at the bottom than
at the top. Over a very long period of time, gravity has made
the glass flow (very slowly) down. |
| 11 |
True |
! |
| 12 |
Around 100,000 hairs
(although there are close to 2 million hairs over the whole body of
an adult human). |
