Some Exciting Facts...
1.When Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004, he bragged about people trusting his site with...
2.The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world.
3.More ships have been abandoned by their employers than taken hostage by Somali pirates.
4.Prairie dogs give a little tongue to say hello.
5.Jupiter is the planet with the strongest pull of gravity in the Solar System.
6.8.7% of Facebook users are fake.
7.Two-thirds of Peru is covered in prime Amazon Rain Forest.
8.Refined sugar is more addictive than cocaine.
9.Joseph Priestly is traditionally credited with discovering oxygen in 1774.
10.Five-Sided Oranges are grown by japanese farmers for easier stack and store.
Top 10 exciting discoveries of the decade
At number 10 is the discovery of Eris in 2005, a minor body that is 27 percent bigger than Pluto.
The finding became the trigger that changed the face of our solar system, defining the planets and adding Pluto to a growing family of dwarf planets in 2006.
At number 8 is the direct confirmation of the mysterious dark matter in the summer of 2006.
The unprecedented evidence came from the careful weighing of gas and stars flung about in the head-on smash-up between two great clusters of galaxies in the Bullet Cluster. Until then, the existence of dark matter was inferred by the fact that galaxies have only one-fifth of the visible matter needed to create the gravity that keeps them intact. So, the rest must be invisible to telescopes: That unseen matter is "dark."
At number 7 is the emergence of new human ancestors, first, in the form of a 6- to 7-million-year-old skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis - known as Toumai, in northern Chad in 2002. Then, in 2009, the nearly complete skeleton of "Ardi," in northeastern Ethiopia bumped the famous "Lucy" as the earliest, most complete skeleton of a human ancestor ever found.
At number 6 is an astronomer seeing alien planets, or "exoplanets", directly in 2008, using theHubble Space Telescope and the infrared Keck and Gemini observatories in Hawaii.
At number 5 is the concept of cyborgs that is, half-machine, half-humans, becoming a reality in the last decade, as much progress has been made with people controlling robotic limbs and computers with their minds.
At number 4 is finding of stem cells in new sources in 2007, when scientists from Kyoto University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, essentially turned back the clock for adult skin cells, allowing these mature cells, which were preprogrammed to become skin, to act like embryonic stem cells.
At number 3 is the discovery of water ice on the surface of Mars in 2008 by NASA's Mars Phoenixlander.
At number 2 is the development of the rough draft of the entire human genome in the year 2000, followed by a completed version in 2003.
At number 1 is the finding that in the past decade, glaciers have been melting much faster than ever expected.
This is an article in Discovery News has listed the top ten discoveries of the decade.
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