Facts 1 – 5
- There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times
- At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth
- The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years
- A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons
- A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs
Facts 6 – 10
- Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide
- The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph, by Fred Rompelberg
- We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine
- 65% of those with autism are left handed
- The combined length of the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles
Facts 11 – 15
The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet
The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion, billion, billion liters of alcohol [JFrater is planning to move there in the near future]
Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air
60-65 million years ago dolphins and humans shared a common ancestor
Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur Facts 16 – 20
The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life
A single rye plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground
The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees C during the day, and, at night, plummets to minus 180 degrees centigrade
The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from ten to twenty-five gallons in twenty-four hours
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