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Fun Facts  1. The oldest person ever to have lived (whose age could be authenticated), a French woman named Jeanne Louise Calment, was 122 years old when she died in 1997. ( Guinness world record ) 2.  The tallest living man is 37-year-old Sultan Kosen, from Turkey, who is 8 feet, 2.8 inches, who set the record in 2009. His growth is also due to a pituitary issue. ( Guinness world record ) 3.  The tallest man ever recorded was American giant Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), who stood 8 feet 11 inches. Wadlow’s size was the result of abnormally enlarged pituitary gland. ( Guinness world record ) 4.  The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub. It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros. ( About google ) 5. The oldest-known living land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, who is 187 years old. He was born in 1832 and has lived on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean since 1882. ( Guinness world record ) 6. T...

15 Quick Science Facts that Will Blow Your Mind

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There is enough DNA in an average person's body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back -- 17 times. More science facts after the jump. Why don’t more people appreciate science? Personally, I believe it has something to do with science communication and the way we teach science in our schools. With this in mind, here are a couple amazing scientific facts that I hope will inspire you to learn something new every day — they’ve certainly done so for me. However, this list is much too short; keep it growing by adding your own science facts in the comments section. 1. There is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times The  human genome  (the genetic code in each human cell) contains 23 DNA molecules (called chromosomes), each containing from 500,000 to 2.5 million nucleotide pairs. DNA molecules of this size are 1.7 to 8.5 cm long when uncoiled — about 5 cm on average. There are about  37 trillion cells  in ...