Shocking & surprising liquid facts you probably didn’t know. From space & our bodies to animals, diseases, and thing you didn’t even know were liquids.
From liquid oxygen to tide laundry detergent, liquids can do some amazing & shocking things. Here’s some liquid facts you probably didn’t know.
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Oxygen turns to liquid at -361 degrees
Fahrenheit & is actually sky blue.
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Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
- For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.
- If you dip a flower into liquid nitrogen it freezes instantly and becomes so brittle that you can smash it with a hammer.
- No animal, once frozen solid survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break the cells open. But there’s a frog that can keep the fluids in their body liquid even though their body temperature is below zero
Celsius. But if you disturb them with even 1 touch the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
- Do you know what liquid causes the most deaths? Scalding hot water, Especially for children & the Elderly. (
On Camera)
- A child's skin is much thinner than ours, putting them at a much greater risk for hot liquid burns & at lower temperatures.
Senior citizens are more vulnerable also, due to slower reaction times & desensitized skin from lower blood circulation rates.
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Astronauts can’t burp in space. There is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
- Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
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Don Juan Pond in
Antarctica is nearly 20 times as salty as the ocean so many objects don’t sink. It also stays liquid at temperatures of -63.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
Below the coldest average winter night in
Alaska
- Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
- The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of 6 in the home is liquid dish soap.
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The double big gulp at 64 oz has almost 4 times as much liquid as the average human stomach can hold. (On camera drinking one)
- The atmospheric pressure on
Saturn is over
100 times greater than the
Earth’s atmospheric pressure. The pressure is so powerful that it squeezes gas into liquid. It would crush any human-made spacecraft.
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Ebola fever makes people bleed from all their body openings, and turns their internal organs to liquid.
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Solid waste from space lavatories on shuttles is compressed and stored for return to Earth; liquid waste is thrown out into space.
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Water is the only substance that occurs naturally in liquid, solid, and gas forms.
- To make them more light weight birds don’t have bladders to store liquid urine, so instead they produce the white pasty substance we all know & love.
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Ladybugs bleed to protect themselves. When alarmed, they release drops of a reddish or yellowish bitter tasting liquid from their mouths, pores & joints which repels prospective attackers.
- A housefly can only ingest liquid material. They regurgitate their food to liquefy the food that they are going to eat
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Humans can breathe liquids. A mixture has been created for premature babies to breath until their lungs fully develop.
- Any free moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because without gravity it’s shaped by it’s own surface tension. (Which is caused by the attraction between the liquid's molecules) Like when you see insects walking on water.
- In the vacuum of space, all liquids (including urine) simultaneously boil and freeze. A liquid that is spilled or dumped into outer space instantly spreads out into a vapor then the droplets freeze into a fine haze of ice crystals.
- Silicone breast implants grew in popularity in the
1960s. initially used in
Japan in WWI to plump out legs withered by polio, show girls began to inject it directly into their breasts which lead to major medical conditions.
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- published: 16 May 2015
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