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• [Science fact 1] Without enzymes, it would take about 1 million years for our body to extract energy from ATP. ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) is essentially the most common form of "energy currency" in almost any living cell. When they say the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, that’s because it makes about 36 molecules of ATP for every one glucose molecule it processes.

  Humanbody, Sciencesource

• [Science fact 2] The reason fighter pilots usually don't pass out under intense G-forces is because of their G-suit. Under intense force, the suit squeezes the legs extremely hard to prevent as much blood as possible from leaving the head, allowing some pilots to go up to 9 G's without passing out.

  Humanbody, Sciencesource

• [Science fact 3] Fish can form schools containing millions of fish. They use their eyes and something called a lateral line to hold their places in the school. The lateral line is a row of pores running along the fish’s sides from head to tail. Special hairs in the pores sense changes in water pressure from the movements of other fish or predators.

  Fish, Music, Science

• [Science fact 4] Jellyfish account for more than 10 times the weight of the annual fish catch around the world.

  Fish, Music, Science

• [Science fact 5] Each jellyfish tentacle is armed with thousands of cells called cnidoblasts. Inside the cnidoblasts are nematocysts, each of which contains a coiled stinging thread. When a fish or other object becomes tangled in the tentacles, the pressure inside the nematocysts causes the venomous threads to uncoil like a spring-loaded harpoon.

  Fish, Music, Science

• [Science fact 6] The Boötes void, a.k.a the Great Nothing, is an enormous spherical region of space that has a very small number of galaxies. At nearly 330 million light-years in diameter, it is one of the largest known voids in the Universe. The scale of the void is such that if the Milky Way had been in the center of the Boötes void, we wouldn’t have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s. This void has opened space for many discussions of its origin, including the hypothesis of a Type III civilization in the Kardashev scale. It would be a galactic civilization that can control energy at the scale of its entire host galaxy.

  Science, Spacesource

• [Science fact 7] Scientists have discovered what they think is the world’s oldest biological color. It is bright pink. These pigments were discovered after researchers crushed 1.1 billion-year-old rocks in the marine shale deposit beneath the Sahara desert.

  People, Sciencesource

• [Science fact 8] While the ostrich lays the largest eggs on land, the whale shark lays the largest eggs in the world. An egg from a whale shark measuring 14 inches in diameter was found in the Gulf of Mexico in 1953.

  Fish, Music, Science

• [Science fact 9] Most brands of lipstick contain fish scales.

  Fish, Music, Science

• [Science fact 10] Your hair contains traces of gold.

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