1.Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already traveled past 100,000 stars
2. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
3. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
4. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
5. Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
6. When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.
7. The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
8. Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
9. Every year lightning kills about 1000 people.
10. In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .
11. If you could drive your car straight up with the speed of 100km/h, you would arrive in space in just an hour.
12. Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
13. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
14. The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
15. Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
16. When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
17. If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
18. Astronauts cannot belch, there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
19. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
20. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
21. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
22. The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
23. The thermometer was invented in1607 by Galileo.
24. Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
25. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
26. Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
27. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
28. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 the patient lived for 18 days.
29. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
30. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
31. ‘Wireless’ communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
32. The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.
33. The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
34. Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.
35. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
36. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
37. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
38. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried, the entire US telephone system was shut down for1 minute in tribute.
39. Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
40. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
41. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
42. It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.
43. . There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than thereare humans on the surface of the earth.
44. Light would take13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
45. Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second 86 million each day.
46. One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
47. Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
48. Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
49. A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
50. A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.
51. 90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
52. The coldest spot was Antarctica's vostok station that recorded a bonechilling -128.6º Fahrenheit (-89.2ºC).
On that note, Antarctica contains or holds about 70 percent of the Earth's fresh water and 90 percent of its ice.
53. When the inventor of Pringles' Can passed away, his ash was buried in one of the Cans after cremation, 2008.
54. Penguins will give their mate a pebble as a way of proposing.
55. Butterflies are cannibals.
56. Turtles can breathe out of their butts
57.There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal (turritopsis nutricula).
58. The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest force in the world is the US Navy.
59. If a man never cut his beard, by the time he dies it would be 30 feet long.
60. 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means a normal expulsion represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds.
61. If you keep going North, you will eventually go South. If you keep going East, you will never go West.
62. Black HP printer ink costs roughly 1,400 times as much as crude oil, gallon for gallon.
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