Mosquitoes are unable to penetrate silk. Mosquitoes can penetrate through cloth with their long proboscis. However, silk has a much stronger durability than most clothes that insects cannot bite through.
100 Mind-Blowing Stronger Facts
The human bone is stronger than steel. If you were to have a bone and a piece of steel of the same length and thickness, the bone would be five times stronger than the steel bar. However, bones are brittle and can also fracture on impact.
The thigh bones of humans are stronger than concrete. The thigh bones support the weight of the entire body and are approximately eight times stronger than concrete. However, they are still prone to break when serious injury is inflicted on the bone.
A head of human hair is strong enough to support 12 tons. If you’ve treated your hair with anything other than your natural hair colour, you’d know that it is stronger than you think. Science has proof to back it up. According to a study, a strand of hair can hold up to 30 ounces, and an entire head of hair can withstand up to 12 tons (or, the size of two elephants).
A cubic inch of bone is four times as strong as concrete. Ounce for ounce, bone is even stronger than steel.
An ant’s sense of smell is stronger than a dog’s.
Dogs’ sense of smell is about 100,000 times stronger than humans, but they have just one-sixth our number of taste buds.
A single strand of spider silk is thinner than human hair but also five times stronger than steel of the same width. A rope just 2 inches thick could reportedly stop a Boeing 747.
Tardigrades are extremely durable microscopic animals that exist all over Earth. They can survive any of the following: 300 degrees Fahrenheit (149 Celsius), -458 degrees F (-272 C), the vacuum of space, pressure six times stronger than the ocean floor, and more than a decade without food.
Computer Security Day is celebrated on November 30th. It was started in 1988 to help raise awareness of computer-related security issues. To celebrate Computer Security Day is easy and important – check your privacy settings on Facebook, and change your passwords to something stronger. You can also read the latest technology facts and make sure your data stored on your phone or in the cloud is secure.