Trivia!

DID YOU KNOW?!

The synthetic biological cell “Synthia” is the first living organism whose parent is not a living thing but a
computer.

Humans share 60% of DNA with a banana.

The Giant Kelp algea (Macrocystis pyrifera) is the fastest growing organism on earth and can grow at a
rate of 70cm (two feet) a day.

The femur (thigh bone) is the largest and longest bone in the human body.

The jaw is the strongest muscle in the human body in terms of exerting force.

Dolphins only “sleep” half awake – keeping one eye open while consciously breathing and floating on
surface.

An adult Mayfly’s life is as short as a few minutes, but its body hatches for about a year.

The length between your elbowand hand (forearm) equals the length of your foot.

The nails on long fingers grow faster than short fingers; and fingernails grow four times faster than

toenails.

If you fully stretch your armsout, the fingertip to fingertip length is almost exactly your body height.

The lightest organ in the human body is the lung.

There’s about 1.8m (6 ft) longDNA inside every cell nucleus in our body, and an average adult body

contains around 50 trillion (million million) cells.

An ostrich egg is also the largest existing single cell.

Some migratory birds have a “magnetic compass” in their body (a sense calledMagnetoreception) to
help them navigate using Earth’s magnetic field.

A kind of jellyfish (Turritopsis nutricula) upon reaching adulthood can transform itself back to childhood
by converting its cells. It may repeat this to live forever.