The human eye is so sensitive that, if the Earth were flat, you could spot a candle in the dark from 20 miles away
Source: imgur.com
The farthest object visible with the naked eye is the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.6 million light years from Earth.
Source: livescience.com
If you removed all the empty space from between and within every atom making up all humans, you could fit the entire human race into the volume of a sugar cube.
The human race (or the atoms that make us) are 99.9999999999999%
empty space. In theory, if you removed all that empty space, humanity
could fit into the volume of a sugarcube.
Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost U.S. state.
Source: imgur.com
Yes, you read correctly - Alaska is both the most Eastern and
Western state. Alaska's Aleutian Islands cross from the Western
Hemisphere into the Eastern Hemisphere.
Source: geography.about.com
Chances are, a pack of cards have never randomly been shuffled into the same order.
If every star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, each with a
trillion people living on them, and each of these people has a trillion
packs of cards and somehow they manage to make unique shuffles 1,000
times per second, and they'd been doing that since the Big Bang, they'd
only just now be starting to repeat shuffles.
One out of every 200 people alive today is a descendant of Genghis Khan
Source: mnn.com
As the ruler of one of the largest Empires in history, Genghis Khan made a serious effort to pass on his genes.
Source: nationalgeographic.com
If a nickel were as big as the Earth, an atom would be the size of a nickel.
Atoms make up everything are mind-bogglingly small. In fact, if
you had an atom of gold for every second that has passed since the big
bang, your piece of gold would now weigh just 0.14 milligrams and be
worth a few cents.
1 out of 10 photographs ever taken in human history were taken in the past 12 months
Source: mirror.co.uk
It’s estimated that in 2014, humans will take 880 billion photos - mostly selfies.
Source: lightbox.time.com
Your blood vessels are long enough to circumnavigate Earth over 12 times.
Inside the average human body are 100,000 miles of blood
vessels, enough to travel around the 7,900 mile diameter of the Earth.
There are more stars in our universe than grains of sand on all our beaches.
There are around 10 sextillion stars in the universe - that’s a 1
followed by 22 zeros. On all our beaches, there’s estimated to be
around 5 sextillion grains of sand.
Antarctica is the world’s largest desert
Source: anpc.com
It may not seem like a desert, but Antarctica receives less than
two inches of precipitation annually. The Sahara can receive up to 4
inches per year.
Source: geography.about.com
A line of rubik's cubes in every possible combination could reach the sun over 17 million times
If you had one rubik's cube for every possible permutation of
the cube, and laid them out end to end it would stretch out for 261
light years. For perspective, the sun is 8 light minutes away and the
closest star, Proxima Centauri, is four light years from Earth.
If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the moon
Source: toiletpaperworld.com
Whenever you fold a piece of paper, it’s thickness grows
exponentially. By the time you fold a piece of paper 20 times, it would
be 6 miles high, taller than Mount Everest. That means that 42 folds
would be enough to make it the 239,000 kilometers to the moon. The most
we’ve ever managed is around 13.
Source: scienceblogs.com
There are more nerve connections in your brain than there are stars in the galaxy.
The number of synapses in an average human brain is in the
trillions, around 0.15 quadrillion to be exact. With 100 billion stars
in the Milky Way, it isn’t even a fair fight.
If you have 57 people in a room, there's a 99% probability that at least two of them share a birthday.
Source: imgur.com
Add an extra 13 people and the chances increase to 99.99%.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
There’s a rainforest in your belly button
Source: hlpain.com
Living inside the tiny hole outside your stomach is an ecosystem
the size of a rainforest. From exploring 60 belly buttons, researchers
found 2,368 bacterial species, 1,458 of which may be new to science.
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
The world's entire population of ants weighs the same as the entire population of humans.
Ants outnumber humans one million to one, making up for their small size.
The Internet weighs as much as a single strawberry
Source: tumblr.com
The vast amount of digital information in motion is made of
electrons, just like everything else. It’s estimated that global
Internet traffic weighs around 50 grams.
Source: nerdshumor.com
A calculator has more power than the computers that put men on the moon in 1969
It doesn’t just stop there - the iPhone5 has 240,000 times the memory of a Voyager Spacecraft.
Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas
Source: dailypicksandflicks.com
While we share 95% of our DNA with chimpanzees, we also share
50% with bananas. Going back in time, we both emerge from the same
family tree, the tree of life, and that is why we share common
characteristics.
Source: nhm.ac.uk
We have better maps of the surface of Mars than our own ocean floor
Around 72% of the Earth’s surface is covered in water. To date, we've explored only 5% of that massive area.
Human fingers are so sensitive that if they were the size of planet Earth, they could feel the difference between houses and cars
Source: wallpaperswide.com
Human fingers are capable of detecting incredibly small nano-scale imperfections in seemingly smooth surfaces.
Source: sciencedaily.com
Plankton produce 50% of the world’s oxygen
Phytoplankton, much like trees and plants, use photosynthesis to
convert light into energy. There happens to be a lot of plankton.
Russia has a bigger landmass than Pluto
Source: planetsforkids.org
Pluto is one of the largest dwarf planets that we know of. With a
surface area of 1.67 x 107 square kilometers, Pluto comes in as large
as 3.3% of the surface of planet Earth.
Source: reddit.com
There are 16 years worth of video uploaded to YouTube every day.
That translates to a massive 6 billion hours of recorded human history every month.
The deepest part of the ocean is so deep that if Mount Everest were placed at the very bottom, the peak would still be submerged by a mile of water.
Source: wired.com
At 36,000 feet deep, Marianas trench is found in the Pacific
Ocean and plays host to some of the obscurest sea life imaginable.
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