The ongoing exploration of science has led us to many fascinating facts about it. Science is strangely complicated and complexly weird. We have managed to reveal many secrets of nature through science but many mysteries are yet to be resolved. While science has helped us to find answers to some of the questions that have been plaguing us for years, it has not succeeded in simplifying many of intricacies of the universe. Here is a look at some weird scientific facts that we have been able to discover.

* The blood vessels, which form a vital part of the circulatory system in human beings, are responsible for enabling the transport of blood throughout the body. If blood vessels were made to lay end to end, all of them together would encircle the Earth twice, by stretching up to a distance of about 100,000 kilometers.

* The human brain, which is the core of the central nervous system and a miraculous creation of nature, can process as many as 70, 000 thoughts in a day!

* Seahorses reproduce in a weird way. It is the male seahorses that get pregnant and give birth to the offsprings. A male seahorse can give birth to as less as one to as many as two thousand fry at one time. One pregnancy lasts for about two to four weeks. When the fry are ready to be born, the male seahorse undergoes muscular contractions to expel the offspring from its pouch.

* Polar bears can run about 25 miles an hour and jump to about 6 feet in air. Polar bear fur consists of a layer of thick under-fur covered by an outer layer of guard hairs. The guard hairs appear in shades of white to tan but are actually transparent. The transparent fur makes the polar bears almost invisible under infrared photography!

* Venus, the second-closest planet to the Sun has continued to arouse the interest of many scientists for years after its discovery. It is the brightest natural object in the night sky, except for the Moon. Interestingly, it orbits the Sun in a clockwise direction, whereas the rest of the planets revolve in an anticlockwise manner. A strange aspect of the orbital of Venus is that it reaches the point closest to Earth after every 584 days.

* Science has revealed that a tropical cyclone releases heat energy at the rate of 50 to 200 exajoules per day. This rate of the release of energy comes to about 200 times the world’s capacity of generating electrical energy. This rate of energy release is equivalent to that released during an explosion of a 10-megaton nuclear bomb every 20 minutes!

* ‘Foetus in foetu’ is a rare abnormality that refers to the phenomenon of a fetus getting trapped inside a twin’s body. The fetus continues to grow like a parasite inside a person’s body, leeching the person’s blood supply. It gradually grows so large that it begins harming the host’s body, after which it has to be surgically removed.

* On an average, a person accidentally eats about 430 bugs in each year of his/her life. This one is definitely weird. Isn’t it?

* Bamboo trees fall under the group of woody perennial evergreen plants. Interestingly, giant bamboo species form the largest members of the grass family. Bamboo is the fastest growing woody plant in the world. Some species of bamboo achieve a growth rate of an astonishing 3-4 feet per day!

* Coffee is a daily drink of the most of you all. But did you know that a single cup of coffee contains over 1000 chemical substances. Weird this is!

By Manali Oak
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