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- A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of fuel in its take-off climb.
- The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.
- Since 1959, more than 6,000 pieces of ‘space junk’ (abandoned rocket and satellite parts) have fallen out of orbit – many of these have hit the earth’s surface.
- It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.
- Every year in the US, 625 people are struck by lightning.
- Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
- The rocket engine has to supply its own oxygen so it can burn its fuel in outer space.
- The North Atlantic gets 1 inch wider every year.
- Oxygen is the most abundant element in the Earth?s crust, waters, and atmosphere (about 49.5%)
- A stroke of lightning discharges from 10 to 100 million volts & 30,000 amperes of electricity.
- A bolt of lightning is about 54,000?F (30,000?C); six times hotter than the Sun.
- Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%).
- The average distance between the Earth & the Moon is 238,857 miles (384,392 km).
- The moon is 27% the size of the Earth.
- The Earth weighs 6.6 sextillion tons, or 5.97 x 1024 kg.
- The center of the Sun is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million ?C).
- Sunlight takes about 8 minutes & 20 seconds to reach the Earth at 186,282 miles/sec (299,792 Km/sec).
- The highest temperature on Earth was 136?F (58?C) in Libya in 1922.
- The lowest temperature on Earth was -128.6?F (-89.6?C) in Antarctica in 1983.
- Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.
- The average ocean floor is 12,000 feet.
- The temperature can be determined by counting the number of cricket chirps in fourteen seconds and adding 40.
- House flies have a lifespan of two weeks.
- Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
- Starfish don’t have brains.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- Shrimp’s hearts are in their heads.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
- Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
- Porcupines float in water.
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger that its brain.
- An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.
- The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
- It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- The pupil of an octopus’ eye is rectangular.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
- Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to extract the juices from the food.
- Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- A cat’s jaws cannot move sideways.
- Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.
- Armadillos can walk underwater.
- There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
- Certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen.
- Only humans sleep on their backs.
- The human brain is 80% water.
- Everyone’s tongue print is different.
- As an adult, you have more than 20 square feet of skin on your body–about the same square footage as a blanket for a queen-sized bed.
- In your lifetime, you’ll shed over 40 pounds of skin.
- 15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.
- Every minute, 30-40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body.
- The brain uses more than 25% of the oxygen used by the human body.
- If your mouth was completely dry, you would not be able to distinguish the taste of anything.
- There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
- Muscles are made up of bundles from about 5 in the eyelid to about 200 in the buttock muscle.
- Muscles in the human body (640 in total) make up about half of the body weight.
- The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
- The human head is a quarter of our total length at birth, but only an eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.
- Most people blink about 17,000 times a day.
- Moths have no stomach.
- Hummingbirds can’t walk.
- Sea otters have 2 coats of fur.
- A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
- A zebra is white with black stripes.
- The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.
- The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
- A crocodile?s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
- Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
- Giraffes are unable to cough.
- Sharks are immune to cancer.
- Despite the hump, a camel?s spine is straight.
- Cheetah’s can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds.
- A giraffe’s neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.
- The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.
- On average, Elephants sleep for about 2 hours per day.
- Lobsters have blue blood.
- Shark’s teeth are literally as hard as steel.
- A mosquito has 47 teeth.
- Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
- Seventy percent of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin
- Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber birds.
- A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.
- The average human produces a quart of saliva a day — about 10,000 gallons in a lifetime
- Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
- The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother’s womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
- Ants do not sleep.
- Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendants.
- An Astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space. The cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity.
- The oldest known fossil is of a single-celled organism, blue-green algae, found in 3.2 billion year-old stones in South Africa.
- The oldest multicellular fossils date from ~700 million years ago.
- The earliest cockroach fossils are about 280 million years old.
- Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.
- 20/20 vision means the eye can see normally at 20 feet. 20/15 is better; the eye can see at 20 feet what another eye sees at 15 feet.
- The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
- There are 60,000 miles (97,000 km) in blood vessels in every human.
