- The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.
- Emus can't walk backwards.
- A group of ravens is called a murder.
- A group of bears is called a sleuth.
- Twelve or more cows is called a flink.
- A baby oyster is called a spat.
- Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
- India has 50 million monkeys.
- By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
- Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
- Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
- A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
- The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
- Some fleas have split penises like a Y shape
- A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
- A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
- More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
- Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
- When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes.
- The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
- The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine.
- A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
- The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
- A swan is the only bird with a penis
- The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
- The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
- A squid has 10 tentacles.
- A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
- A group of owls is called a parliament.
- An elephant can be pregnant for up to 2 years
- Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
- Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.
- Cows can have regional accents
- The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
- Zebras can't see the color orange.
- The smartest dogs are the Jack Russell Terrier and Scottish Border collie.Dumbest: Afgan hound.
- A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
- The fat molecules in goat milk are 5 times smaller than thosefound in cow milk. It takes 20 minutes for the stomach to breakdown as opposed tothe hour that it takes to break down cow milk.
- There are more insects in ten square feet of a rain forest than there arepeople in Manhattan.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
- Bulls are color blind.
- A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
- Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
- A domestic cat can frighten a black bear to climb a tree.
- In a fight between a polar bear and a lion, the polar bear would win.
- US Secret Service sniffer dogs are put up in five-star hotels during overseas presidential visits.
Interesting Facts about Animals
Interesting Facts About Water
- 50 billions of plastic water bottles per year are put into landfills?
- … human body consists at 75% (on average) of water?
- … it is necessary to drink at least 2 litres of pure water every day to feel good?
- … water helps you look good due to its exceptional characteristics?
- … water is the main component in the process of weight loss?
- … BARRIER cartridges were tested by the UL to filter 95 gallons of water from the tap due to the formulation of the filter elements and filters more than twice the capacity of other competing brands so you can save your money if buying BARRIER production?
- … 1 BARRIER cartridge is equal to 760 16 oz. bottles of water?
- … to refill water bottles can help the environment by reducing landfill waste?
50 Interesting Facts
1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
11. Dalmatians are born without spots.
12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).
14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).
39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)
44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
Source: hemmy.net
Interesting Facts About Diseases
Ninety percent of all teenagers suffer from some form of acne.
A woman's arthritic pains will almost always disappear as soon as she becomes pregnant. No one knows why.
A study at the Harvard School of Public Health revealed that women who drink one or more cups of coffee a day are two and a half times more likely to get bladder cancer than women who drink no coffee.
One cannot catch cold at the North Pole in winter. Neither can one contract the flu, nor most of the ailments transmitted viruses and germs. The winter temperature is so low in this part of the world that none of the standard disease causing Micro-organisms can survive.
The chances of an American woman gettinq breast cancer depend on a number of variables. For a woman whose sister's mother, or daughter has developed cancer in both breasts the chances are five to three against, however, if one of these relatives developed cancer before reaching menopase the odds are fifty-fifty. Women with the lowest chances of getting breast cancer are those whose ovaries have been removed before the age of thirty five. Chances are almost as good for a woman who has had a child before the age of eighteen.
Teenagers are 50 percent more susceptible to colds than people over fifty.
Every year some 10,000 infants in the United States die from a mysterious ailment known as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), or Crib Death. Most of these children have been put to bed hours before their death, seemingly in perfect health. All die without a trace of struggle. As yet no one has been able to explain the cause of these deaths.
Diabetes was the third leading cause of death by disease in America. It has increased 50 percent since 1965, and today affects at least 15 million people.
In 1971, at Memorial Hospital in New York City, a woman weighing less than 100 pounds ran a fever of 114 degrees and survived without brain damage or physiological after effects.
There is a strange and terrible disease known as bulimia in which the victim develops a ravenous, insatiable appetite. A woman observed in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in nineteenthcentury London is recorded to have consumed three loaves of bread every day, along with three pounds of steak, large quantities of vegetables, a pound of cereal, and twenty glasses of water. An American doctor named Smith, reporting in the Medical and Surgical Reporter in Philadelphia, mentioned an even stranger case, that of a boy who ate continuously for fifteen hours every day and who had eight or nine bowel movements each evening. In one year this boy's weight increased from 105 to 284 pounds, and it was steadily increasing by about a half-pound a day. Despite his prodigious intake of food, the boy constantly complained of hunger. Another unpleasant ailment akin to this one is polydipsia, or constant thirst. Medical records mention a three-year-old child who drank two pailfuls of water every day. Sir M. MacKenzie, a British doctor, cited the case of a woman who drank four pailfuls of water a day and who once, appearing before a scientific commission, drank 14 quarts of water in ten hours, passed 10 quarts of urine, and continued to complain of thirst.
Two out of three adults in America have hemorrhoids.
The rate of hypertension is twice as high among blacks as whites in the United States, the rate of hypertension among men living in Vermont is also twice the national average, Women of all races are afflicted by this disorder far less than men.
A condition known as hypertrophy (enlargement) of the tongue can sometimes reach such extremes that the tongue becomes too large for the mouth and protrudes over the chin, reaching down as far as the chest. This extraordinary enlargement may cause deformity of the teeth and jaw, and may even cause the sufferer to choke on his or her own tongue.
In 1918 and 1919 a world epidemic of simple Influenza killed 20 million people in the United States and Europe.
Men are twice as likely to contract leprosy as women.
Medical studies show that members of the Seventh-Day Adventist church, even those living in heavily polluted areas, have 1,000 percent less lung cancer than members of the general population. Moreover, SeventhDay Adventists have appreciably lower rates of other cancers and of respiratory diseases, 40 percent less coronary trouble, and scarcely a quarter the amount of tooth decay found in the general population.
Neuritis and neuralgia are not diseases. They are nerve pains related to disease. In fact, when a pain is identified as neuralgia, it is often because the exact cause is not known Neural differs from neuritis in that neuralgia pains come in paroxysms, while neuritis is more constant and even. Thus sciatica is a kind of neuralgia and a toothache a kind of neuritis
Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
Each year more than 300,000 American teenagers become afflicted with some form of venereal disease.
Interesting Facts About Death
After the great ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky died, doctors cut open and examined his feet. They wanted to find out whether his foot bones were different from those of ordinary men, thinking that his bone structure might account for his ability to perform the extraordinary leaps for which he had been famous. The autopsy, however, revealed nothing unusual.
When an Australian Bushman died, his body was lowered into a grave where a special kind of gravedigger awaited it. This person's job was to slice up the corpse and hand out bits of the flesh to the mourners. The order in which the relatives partook of the feast was strictly prescribed. A mother ate from her children, and children from their mother, A man could eat his sister's husband and his brother's wife. A father, however, could not eat his children, nor children their father.
Carl Panzram (murderer of twenty-three people) said---"I wish the whole human race had one neck and I had my hands on it!", before he died.
Edgar Allan Poe felt like saying-- "Lord have mercy on my poor soul..." before dying.
Henry Ward Beecher (when asked on his deathbed if he could raise his arm),--- "Well, high enough to hit you, Doctor."
John Keats said, "I feel the flowers growing over me."...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remarked-"Please close the window." before his death.
Ludwig van Beethoven said, "Applaud, friends, the comedy is finished..." then he died.
Henry IV of France (1553-1610) was exhumed nearly two hundred years after his death so that a death mask of his face could be made.
Under the proper conditions of moisture and heat, the flesh of a buried body will turn to soap. Known as adipocere, this strange substance is a chemical much like baking soda mixed with fat (and thus almost identical in composition to soap) and is called ''grave wax'' by undertakers. For years the corpse of William von Ellenbogen, a soldier whose body turned to adipocere after he was killed in the Revolutionary War, was on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
Hypoxemia is a general term for inadequate oxygenation of the blood and cellular tissue. After the heart has stopped beating, for whatever reason, the body's tissues are no longer supplied with life-giving oxygen. Their essential metabolic processes then cease, and death ensues. Each year man, woman, and child dies of Hypoxemia.
Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
In a churchyard near Cardiff, Wales, one can read the following inscription: "Here lieth the body of William Edwards of Cacreg, who departed this life 24th February, Anno Domini 1668, age one hundred and sixty-eight."
In ancient Egypt, when a rich man was mummified his heart was removed from his body and a heart-shaped stone carving of a dung beetle was put in its place.
The National Academy of Engineering estimates that 15,000 deaths each year are directly attributable to air pollution. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health estimates that many of the 100,000 people who die each year from occupational exposure die as a result of hazardous air quality at work.
The body of Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador who conquered Peru in the sixteenth century, was embalmed with special herbs after his death and preserved in the cathedral in the main square of Lima. His body can still be viewed today, displayed in a glass casket.
In medieval Japan, it was believed that there was a single hair somewhere on the tail of a cat that could Restore Life to a dead person. For this reason cats were brought into the room of a dying person and placed next to his or her bed. As a last resort, relatives sometimes had the dying person pluck a single hair from the cat's tail in the hope that this one would prove to be the magic strand.
It is impossible to commit suicide by holding one's breath. At worst, the person who tries this will eventually lose consciousness. The lungs will then start to breathe again automatically.
Since its completion in 1937, more than 600 people have committed suicide by jumping off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
Nearly 5,000 Americans under the age of twenty-four commit suicide successfuly yearly. An additional 100,000 tried to. Ninety percent of all suicides are females.
source: ioframe.com
Interesting Facts About Gambling
In the 1970's, the typical age range of people who Gamble was 30-55. Today, it is age 17-70.
Bingo is still alive and well and played by all ages. Bingo may not be the fastest way to generate a win, but the jackpots are large and the cost to play is still low. Daily Jackpots are usually around $2500 but there are some places in Las Vegas that have Jackpots of $20,000.
Combinatorial mathematics tells us that a 52-card deck generates 2,598,960 unique five-card hands, of which 1,098,240 hands can make up any one pair. The probability of a single pair materializing is 42.26 percent.
Las Vegas has always boasted legendary betting venues for much of the last century. Stories, legends, films and fantasies have been built and lost in of Las Vegas. More than 1.4 million people call Las Vegas home. The average annual temperature is 66 degrees and the average daily humidity is 30%.
- Visitor Volume 35,849,691
- Visitor Spending $31,464,678,364
- Hotel Rooms 124,270
- Occupancy Rate Hotel 92.5%
- Occupancy Rate Motel 71.9%
- Total Room Occupancy 89.1%
- Room Nights Occupied 34,463,687
- Average Room Rate $74.30
- Conventions Held 4,149
- Convention Attendance 3,853,363
- Convention Impact $4,289,389,724
- Airline Passengers 36,865,866
- Gross Gaming Revenue $7,673,489,000
Trip Expenditures per Visit - Food / Drink $187.32 (The Circus Circus buffet cattle-feeds more than 12,000 customers per day-that's four million per year).
- Shopping $ 94.00
- Room $74.30
- Shows $38.39
- Sightseeing $9.16
- Average Stay: 3.5 nights/4.5 days
Nights Stayed - One 11%
- Two 26%
- Three 23%
- Four 20%
- Five or more 20%
- Average Stay: 3.7 Days
Location of Lodging - Strip 73%
- Downtown 14%
- Boulder Hwy 10%
- Other 3%
Transportation to Las Vegas - Air 46% (850 flights a day bring in more than 2.5 million visitors a month. MaCarren airport is the 8th busiest in the world).
- Automobile 43%
- Bus 8%
- RV 4%
Gaming - Gaming Budget per Trip $665.23
- Percent visitors gambled 85%
- Average # Hours per day 4
(America's gambling habit has grown from approximately $80 billion a year in 1986 to $500 billion in 1995).
Visiting - First Time Visitor 21%
- Repeat Visitor 79%
- Number Visits past year 2
- Visitors with Children 10%
It doesn't t matter how you pick your numbers. Your odds of winning are always the same. The selection of the winning numbers is purely by chance. Each number will always have the same chance of being selected meaning there is no system for picking lottery numbers. It's all by chance and luck.
The popularity of online Gambling is increasing rapidly with this year having seen significant growth in Europe and in Asia. It is estimated that online Casino revenue will increase between $6-$10 Billion Dollars in the next 12 months and reach a staggering $20 Billion by 2005.
The latest record was set on July 18th, when Jim L. won an amazing $1,683,524.64 cash jackpot at a popular Online Casino. Jim has become the third winner of over a million and a half dollars cash on the Major Millions slot in a little over a year.
Approximately 5% of people who Gamble will become problem Gamblers (addicts). The addicted Gambler is a person who spends money irresponsibly which impacts on themselves and the people around them.
There are six types of Gamblers:
- Professional - Gambling is the primary source of their income, in other words makes a living of off Gambling.
- Casual Social Gambler - Gambling is one of many forms of entertainment for this type of person and will Gamble infrequently.
- Serious Social Gambler - Gambles as a major source of entertainment for this type of person which will play regularly at one or more types of Gambling and will do so with great intensity and passion.
- Relief/Escape Gambler - Major activity in a person's life of equal importance with family and business but the rest of life goes on without integrity being seriously impaired, much much more than just a pastime.
- Compulsive Gambler - Gambling is the only thing in life and frequently ignores family and work, and often turns to crime to support their habit.
- Antisocial Personality - Life career is getting money by illegal means, for example; these people will Gamble and try to "rig" or cheat at Gambling games.
- Progressively increasing interest and preoccupation with Gambling.
- Use of Gambling as a way to escape problems or relieve depression.
- Inability to stop playing regardless of winning or losing despite constant vows to quit or abstain.
- Restlessness or irritability when attempting to cut down or stop Gambling.
- Lying to everyone to hide the amount of Gambling.
- Relying on others for money to relieve a financial problem that arose due to Gambling.
- Losing or jeopardizing an important relationship due to Gambling.
- Believe that when winning, it will not stop, then keep playing.
- Gambling the next day to win back the money lost Gambling.
All casino slot machines are not created equal. They may look identical on the outside, but they are totally different machines on the inside. Just recently, an unidentified woman from the Las Vegas area, who was a casino regular for 23 years hit a record $27.6 million slot jackpot. She had spent $300 gambling at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino in November 1998, before she cashed in on the $27,582,539.48 jackpot. She was to be paid $1.1 million over 25 years. The previous record had been $14 million for a Super Megabucks progressive slot machine.
The largest "legal" wager ever made was an 8 to 1 money line bet (the outcome of a game without points), that San Francisco would beat San Diego in the Superbowl XXIX. An unidentified gambler wagered $2.4 million at the Mirage in Las Vegas. The 49ers won and the person had a payout of $300,000.
Interesting science facts
In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .
The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
October 12th, 1999 was declared “The Day of Six Billion” based on United Nations projections.
It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second - that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).
One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.
DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
Utopia is a large, smooth lying area of Mars.
On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.
The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.
A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.
Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.
There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
…and now they are already past the Moon.
Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.
Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.
The saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.
Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
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.
A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.
Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
A typical hurricane produces the nergy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.
90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.
Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.
Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second - 86 million each day.
Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.
One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
‘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.
The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.
Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.
The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.
The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.
The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.
The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.
If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.
The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.
Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.
At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.
In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.
A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.
Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.
source: ioframe.com
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