20 FUN SCIENCE FACTS TO BLOW MINDS(not literally)

1. Believe it or not, when astronauts were asked what space smells like, they've likened it to seared steak, hot metal, gun power and welding fumes. This distinctive aroma is smelt by as astronauts as they move from space to inside the space station, and could be the result of high-energy vibrations in the particles brought in from outside as they mix with the station air.

2. At around 15 calories per serving, sperm contains the same protein as the white of a large egg, along with vitamin c, calcium, magnesium, potassium, vitamin B12 and zinc.

3. A spoonful of ice cream lights up the same pleasure centre in the brain as winning music or listening to your favourite music.

4. An award winning middle schoolers science project showed that on average 70% of the time ice form fast food restaurants is dirtier than toilet water.

5. In 1980, a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.

6. Playing with kittens or puppies has been proven to relieve stress and help students perform better on tests.

7. When rabbits are put on their back, they go into tonic immobility, and are tranced.

8. Blind people experience visual hallucinations when they take LSD.

9. A person is more likely to do something for you if you touch their forearm and speak in their right ear.

10. One bite from the Brazilian Wandering Spider can cause an erection that can last for hours. 11. Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself. 12. The average belly button is home to 60-100 types of bacteria, fungi and yeast, some of them not even known to science.

13. Per cubic metre, the body produces more energy than the sun. 14. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

15. When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

16. Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.

17. Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.

18. There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

19. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

20. If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.