Important facts about plants

• Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world; it can grow 35 inches in a single day.



Ginko tree




• Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is one of the oldest living tree species, it dates back to about 250 million years ago.

6 Amazing facts about human body

• Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
• There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.
• When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
• If the human eye was a digital camera it would have 576 megapixels.
• Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body. 
• If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.  

life cycle of our universe

What is big bang???

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life cycle of a star

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STAR MAP..

Nicolaus Copernicus Facts

• Copernicus was born on the 19th of February, 1473 and died on the 24th of May, 1543.
  
  
• He was born in Thorn, Royal Prussia, part of the Kingdom of Poland at the time.
  
  
• The astronomical model that Copernicus developed was called heliocentrism (helios means Sun). It has the Sun motionless at the center of the Universe while the Earth and other planets rotate around it in circular paths.
  
  
• Copernicus's work ‘On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres’ was published shortly before he died in 1543.
  
  
• Copernicus's skills were not limited to just astronomy. Among other things, Copernicus was also a physician, scholar, economist, translator, mathematician, artist and diplomat.
  
  
• The chemical element Copernicum is named after Copernicus. It has the symbol Cn and atomic number 112.
  
  
• Famous Nicolas Copernicus quotes include: “Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.”
  
  
• “For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating.”
  
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Structure of the sun

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Interesting fact about Tenzing norgey:the Everest mountaineer

In July 2015, the highest known, 3.4-kilometer-high, mountain range on the dwarf planet Pluto was named Norgay Montes.