20 Interesting facts that will blow up your mind
by OdieAndElsa |
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1) Collectively speaking, humans have spent longer playing World of
Warcraft (over 6 million years) than we have existed as a species
separate from chimpanzees.
2) A dog has the same ecological footprint as two Toyota
Landcruisers; a cat the same environmental effect as a Volkswagen Golf;
two hamsters the same as a plasma TV.
3) In 1251, Henry III was given a polar bear by the king of Norway.
He kept it in the Tower of London, on a long chain so that it could swim
in the Thames.
4) Until the 1960′s, the only reliable pregnancy test was to inject a
woman’s urine into a female African clawed frog. If the woman was
pregnant, the frog would ovulate within 12 hours.
5) About 65 billion neutrinos will pass through your fingernail in a second
6) If all the LEGO bricks ever manufactured were clipped on top of
one another, they would make a tower ten times as high as the distance
to the Moon.
7) Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
8) If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in,
it would take you exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other
side.
9) A medium-sized cumulus cloud weighs about the same as 80 elephants.
10) A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.
11) There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean.
12) 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.
13) The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
14) If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
15) More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
16) The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40.
17) A red blood cell can make a complete circuit of your body in 20 seconds.
18) The strongest creatures on Earth are gonorrhea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own body weight.
19) One in ten European babies is conceived in an IKEA bed. (Not much science in this one, but funny enough to know :))
20) The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life
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