Read some fun science facts for
kids and find out more about the strange, crazy, amazing and odd
science processes that make our world go round. Children will love the
cool and sometimes bizarre information as well as did you know facts
and a range of other interesting science related trivia.
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The noise that is thunder is created when the air around lightning gets rapidly heated and expands at a rate faster than the speed of sound.
- Rather than putting on weight from eating celery you actually lose it, you burn more calories from the chewing than you put on from the food itself.
- Sound travels 4 times faster in water than it does through air.
- Cranberries can be tested for ripeness by bouncing them, if they are ripe they should have a bouncing quality.
- Travelling at 80 kilometres per hour, a car uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
- The largest living structure on Earth is the Great Barrier Reef. Found in Australia, it is over 2000 kilometres long.
- The QWERTY keyboard layout used on most computers was invented way back in the 1860's.
- Some types of bamboo can grow nearly a metre a day!
- Diamonds are the hardest known substance.
- Light from the sun can reach a depth of 80 metres in the ocean.
- When you crack a whip, it makes a loud noise because the tip is actually moving faster then the speed of sound!
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