14750. Science Facts

A zookeeper in Germany tried to treat an elephant for constipation with laxative foods and an enema (pumping oil into its anus through a tube). His cure was effective – the elephant produced 90 kilograms (200 pounds) of faeces, which landed on the keeper and suffocated him.

14751. Science Facts

A firestorm is an uncontrollable fire, often the result of a bombing raid. Temperatures can rise to 800 degrees Celsius (1,472 degrees Fahrenheit) and air is sucked into the firestorm with the force of a hurricane. People who aren't burned can suffocate.

14752. Science Facts

Fat contains a huge amount of energy. Polar explorers sometimes eat hunks of greasy seal fat to give themselves enough calories to keep their bodies warm.

14753. Science Facts

In 1890, a young girl was smeared with phosphorous so that she would glow in the dark and could act as a ghost in a hoax séance. She was poisoned by the chemical and died.

14754. Science Facts

Scabs are formed when chemical proteins react with special blood cells called platelets, which cause the blood to get sticky and clump together. Once you've clotted, lots of different chemicals and cells work together to dry out the clot and form a scab, keeping out germs while the cells underneath repair themselves. So, if you pick a scab you're messing with all your body's hard work!

14755. Science Facts

Piles of horse manure steam in cold weather because the action of bacteria breaking it down produces so much heat.The manure, filled with water and gas, is a good insulator, so it stays hot.

14756. Science Facts

In 2000, UK mountaineer Major Michael Lane gave to a museum five of his own fingers and eight of his toes which had dropped off as a result of frostbite when he was climbing Mount Everest in 1976.

14757. Science Facts

A French cement factory uses soiled nappies as fuel to heat its cement kilns.

14758. Science Facts

Volcanic vents deep under the sea are home to strange plants and animals that can live in high temperatures and poisonous, acidic water.

14759. Science Facts

Scientists studying Mormon crickets cut the heads off to see what the crickets had been eating – and found many had eaten other Mormon crickets. If one stopped to eat, another would often come along and eat it.

14760. Science Facts

Doctors used to test for diabetes by tasting the patient's urine – diabetes made it taste sweet because sugar was lost in it.

14761. Science Facts

The first frozen chicken was created by Sir Francis Bacon who stuffed a plucked chicken with snow in 1626 to experiment with refrigeration. It worked, but he died from a chill contracted during the experiment. The chicken is said to haunt Pond Square in London.

14762. Science Facts

It is possible to drown in mud – and almost impossible to save someone who is drowning in mud as so much force is needed to pull them against the weight of it.

14763. Science Facts

On the east coast of the USA there is a laboratory that leaves dead bodies of humans and animals outside to decay so that scientists can study the rate at which they rot, and the maggots and microbes that help them decompose.

14764. Science Facts

If blue whales tried to live on land, they would be crushed and suffocated by their own weight.They can live successfully in water because it supports them.

14765. Science Facts

In an experiment with a condemned prisoner, Doctor Beaurieux of France discovered in 1905 that a person – or head – can hear and respond for around 25 seconds after beheading.

14766. Science Facts

Diamonds are so hard they are often used as the tip of a dentist's drill because they can grind through teeth.

14767. Science Facts

Soap can be made by dissolving animal fat using an alkali such as sodium hydroxide. Soap used to be made from sheep or pig fat.

14768. Science Facts

Most bacteria are only about 0.00025 of a centimetre (0.0001 of an inch) across. But monster bacteria have been found at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Africa. They are so big they can be seen without a microscope – they're each about the size of the dot of this full stop.

14769. Science Facts

Hungry huskies and polar bears have been known to attack explorers when they urinate – they are attracted by the smell.

14770. Science Facts

Honey kills germs. Spreading it on wounds can stop them becoming infected.

14771. Science Facts

Scientists have modified cockroaches, implanting electrodes in them to control their legs, and used them as living robots to carry cameras or explosives through tiny spaces.

14772. Science Facts

Amongst fuels investigated for use where (or when) oil and petrol are scarce, scientists have tried running cars and tractors on chicken faeces.

14773. Science Facts

Occasionally, babies are born with a full set of teeth.

14774. Science Facts

In Chile, trains on the Arica-La Paz railway were at one time powered by burning llama faeces.

14775. Science Facts

Dermestid beetles are so good at stripping the flesh off dead animals that natural history museums use their larvae to clean up skeletons they are going to put on display.

14776. Science Facts

Some types of pitcher plant have long trailing stems which capture and digest small animals such as frogs.

14777. Science Facts

Malaria is a deadly disease spread by mosquitoes. It is caused by a tiny parasite that lives inside a person's blood cells. Malaria kills 1–3 million people a year.

14778. Science Facts

Early Indian surgeons used ants to hold the edges of wounds together. They would get an ant to bite through both sides of the wound, then twist off the ant's body and throw it away, leaving the head in place with the jaws acting as a stitch.

14779. Science Facts

Railway workers in France in the 1800s claimed to have freed a Pterodactyl trapped in rock.They said it flapped, squawked and died. Reports of frogs and other animals trapped in solid rock are quite common, but not scientifically proven.

14780. Science Facts

Snake venom is not normally poisonous if swallowed because stomach acid alters the chemicals in it.

14781. Science Facts

A toxin in the nectar of laurels and rhododendrons makes honey made from these plants poisonous. In 66 BCE, Roman troops were lured by their enemies into a grove where bees made honey from these flowers. The soldiers ate it and were slaughtered while sick.

14782. Science Facts

The scientific name for a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth is arachibutyrophobia.

14783. Science Facts

If you fell into a black hole you would be stretched into an incredibly long, thin string in a process called ‘spaghettification'.

14784. Science Facts

Cells taken from the inside of baby teeth when they fall out have been grown and have reproduced in the laboratory. Put into the jaws of mice, they grow into soft teeth, with no hard enamel on the outside.

14785. Science Facts

Urine contains chemicals that we use in cleaning fluids and used to be used for cleaning things.

14786. Science Facts

Scientists investigating tumour growth added a gene from a firefly to make a glow-in-thedark tumour.The tumour is visible through the skin of a test animal, so scientists can see if it grows or shrinks.

14787. Science Facts

There are ‘banks' where the umbilical cords of new babies can be stored in case future medical developments make it possible to grow new organs or tissues from cells in them.

14788. Science Facts

A fear of worms is called scoleciphobia.

14789. Science Facts

There are over 20,000 road crashes involving kangaroos in Australia every year, so a robo-roo robotic test crash dummy like a kangaroo is used to test how badly cars will be damaged.

14790. Science Facts

In 1999, an artist in Chicago, USA, announced his plan to grow a glow-in-the-dark dog by adding a gene from jellyfish to it.

14791. Science Facts

Some animals respond to small amounts of poisonous gas and have been used as early warning systems. German soldiers kept cats in the trenches of the First World War to smell gas, and British miners kept budgies in cages because they died quickly if gas escaped into the mine.

14792. Science Facts

A person would need to weigh around 650 kilograms (1,433 pounds) to have enough fat to stop a bullet. Although their body would be bullet-proof, they could still be killed by a shot to the head.

14793. Science Facts

Scientists are working on a microscopic robotic tadpole to deliver medicines – the tadpole would ‘swim' through the patient's blood vessels to take the medicine where it's needed.

14794. Science Facts

Victorian children were often given their own salt cellar, which they were told was a sign of being grown up. In fact, the salt was mixed with bromide, which made them calmer and better behaved.

14795. Science Facts

Potatoes, aubergines, tomatoes and peppers all belong to the same family of plants as deadly nightshade!

14796. Science Facts

Not all dead bodies rot. In the right conditions, some of the fat can turn to a soap-like substance so that if the body is dug up, even years later, it can look much the same as when it was buried.

14797. Science Facts

Police scientists investigating a murder can work out how long a body has been dead by looking at the kinds of maggots, worms and insects that are eating it.

14798. Science Facts

Archaeologists find out about what people in the Stone Age ate by examining Stone Age faeces called coprolites.They have to be soaked in water for three days first to soften them.

14799. Science Facts

An unusual form of drug abuse is licking cane toads. They make a slime containing a drug which produces hallucinations (strange experiences or visions). People in some parts of Australia and the USA have started licking the toads to enjoy the drug.

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