21 Science Facts You Won't Believe Are True

8. Humans Would Be Able To Fly Like Birds On Titan

Titan's lakes
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Thanks to its thick atmosphere, on the Saturnian moon Titan, humans would be able to fly like birds if they strapped wings to their arms.

A paper, entitled "You can fly" was published by the University of Leicester and runs the numbers on the possibility of human flight on Saturn's biggest moon and has found that with a wing area of 1.4 square meters and a run up of 11 meters per second, we could soar with the alien birds.

7. Scientists Have Concluded That The Chicken Came Before The Egg

chicken bro
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Science is all about answering the big questions, and finally this age old conundrum can be put to bed.

Researchers at Sheffield University have concluded that the chicken must have come before the egg, because the formation of the shell of a chicken's egg is only possible thanks to a protein that is made in the chicken's ovaries. So, it must have been the mutation in the chicken that can first, to produce those eggs.

So that's settled, or is it?

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