10 Amazing science facts

1. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph
2. Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth. 
3. To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second
4. Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.
5. 32/ Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.
6. Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250
7. Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
8. ‘Wireless’ communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
9. One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a pea.
10. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.