| “Acre” literally means the amount of land plowable in one day. |
| 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells all while you have been reading this sentence. |
| 51,000 people can fit onto a football field if they stand really close together. |
| 90% of all the data ever produced by humans was created in the last two years. |
| 94% of the world’s information is stored digitally. |
| A boat is usually 6 times longer than it is wide—ratio used by modern shipbuilders. |
| A bolt of lightning goes 20,000 miles a second. |
| A large man can perspire up to 5 gallons of water a day. |
| A lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the sun. |
| A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there. |
| A pint of milk in a supermarket can contain milk from over a thousand different cows. |
| A radio-broadcast voice will be heard 13,000 miles away before it is heard at the back of the room in which it originated. |
| A raindrop that falls into the Thames will pass through the bodies of eight people before it reaches the sea. |
| A scientist has it figured out that in 36,000,000 years the moon will be close enough to the earth to create tides 650 feet high. That would endanger the safety of most of the inhabitants of the globe. Well, we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. |
| A small hurricane releases energy equivalent to the explosions of six atomic bombs per second. |
| A square mile of sunlight weighs about three pounds. Sunlight has weight because it exerts pressure on anything it encounters. If all the sunlight reaching Earth could be weighed, it would tip the scales at more than 87,000 tons. |
| After just four moves in a game of chess, there are 318,979,564,000 possibilities for the layout of the board. |
| An “Insect of the Month” calendar wouldn’t have to repeat a species for more than 80,000 years. |
| At any given moment, there are 1,800 thunderstorms raging around the world, generating about 6,000 flashes of lightning each minute. |
| Atoms in a row measure 200 million to the inch. |
| Avalanches can hurtle down slopes at speeds of up to two hundred miles per hour. |
| Bald eagles can fly to an altitude of 10,000 feet. |
| Bamboo can grow at a speed of around three feet per day! |
| Based on the rate at which knowledge is growing, it can be speculated that by the time today’s child reaches fifty years of age, 97% of everything known in the world at that time will have been learned since his birth. |
| Caffeine makes its way to the brain about 30 minutes after it’s ingested and continues to stimulate the nervous system for up to eight hours afterward. |
| Doubling a child’s height on his second birthday gives a close estimate of his final adult height. A boy of two is 49.5 percent of his adult height, a girl of two is 52.8 percent of her adult height. |
| Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper is so high, and its lifts are so fast, that you can watch the sun set at ground level, travel to the roof, and watch it set again. |
| Earth has eight times as many trees as scientists previously thought. |
| Einstein’s general theory of relativity showed that gravity is a consequence of the curvature that space undergoes around a massive object. |
| Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter’s initials in the lunar dust. They will still be legible in 50,000 years. |
| Every grain of sand on the planet is unique. |
| Every year, the moon moves 1.5 inches away from the earth. |
| Honey contains natural enzymes that keep it fresh forever, without artificial preservatives. Supplies of honey disinterred in this century by archaeologists from the Egyptian pyramids proved as fresh as the day they were bottled, three thousand years ago |
| Hubble scientists say the telescope’s resolving power can separate individual beams of a car’s headlights three thousand miles away. |
| If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt, they would fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. |
| If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts. |
| If the sun were the size of a soccer ball, the earth would be the size of a pea. |
| If the world’s total land area were divided equally among the world’s people, each person would hold 8.5 acres. |
| In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them. John von Neumann |
| In movies, reels of still photographs are projected onto screens at 24 frames per second, tricking our eyes into seeing a continuous moving picture. |
| It has been estimated that the earth receives only a twenty-millionth part of one percent of the sun’s output. Yet this infinitesimal amount from one of the billion trillion similar stars makes it possible to live, have warmth, food and light. |
| It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.Thomas Carlyle |
| It is believed that around 80% of Earth’s gold is still buried underground. |
| It takes a plastic container 50,000 years to start decomposing. |
| It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to Earth. All totaled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as an ocean liner. |
| It usually takes fifteen to twenty minutes after a human’s footsteps have ceased or his scent has disappeared for animals to begin to move about again. |
| It would take more than an hour for a heavy object to sink to the deepest part of the ocean. |
| More than 75% of all the countries in the world are north of the equator. |
| Mosquitoes have killed more people than have all the world’s wars combined. |
| Most lightning strikes range from 10 million to 30 million volts. By contrast, the “third rail” that powers a typical commuter train carries 600 volts. |
| Ninety-Nine percent of the universe is nothing. |
| Number of faces the average person learns and remembers throughout his lifetime: 10,000. |
| On a clear day in flat, open country, you can see 3.2 miles, if you’re six feet tall and not too myopic. |
| On a clear, moonless night and when there are no obstructions, the human eye can see the light of a single match as far as fifty miles away. |
| On a QWERTY keyboard a typist’s fingers cover 20 miles a day; on a Dvorak keyboard it’s only one mile. |
| Percentage of all life forms known to have existed that exist today: 0.01. Or, 98 percent of plants and animals that ever inhabited the earth are extinct. |
| Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself. |
| Pigs, dogs, and some other animals can taste water, but people cannot. Human’s don’t actually taste the water, they taste the chemicals and impurities in the water. |
| Plants grow larger and more quickly when watered with warm water than those watered with cold water. |
| Pollen is forever. It’s one of the few natural substances that will not deteriorate. |
| Prime farmland is disappearing to development at the rate of almost 50 acres per hour. |
| Quantum mechanics is very impressive…but I am convinced that God does not play dice. -Albert Einstein |
| Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling. |
| Salt is the only rock humans can eat. |
| Seven shuffles are needed to mix a fifty-two-card deck randomly. |
| Sneezes can travel up to 200 feet. |
| Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air. |
| Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground. |
| The Albatross has a wing span of up to 14 feet and only needs to visit land once every few years. Amazingly, these birds can travel hundreds of thousands of miles without ever touching land. |
| The atom-bomb explosion at Hiroshima was generated by matter weighing no more than a paper clip. |
| The average person blinks 14,440 times per day. |
| The coldest known place in the Solar System is in a crater at the north pole of the Moon. |
| The Eiffel Tower is not 984 feet tall, regardless of what your encyclopedia says. Its height varies by six inches depending upon the temperature. Thus, if you want to set height records, measure in the summer when everything is at its tallest. |
| The energy in ten minutes of one hurricane is equal to that of all the nuclear weapons in the world. |
| The energy of one sizable hurricane in one day could power the United States for three years. |
| The greatest amount of bacteria on your body is hidden between your toes. |
| The largest and most distant body of water so far discovered is 30 billion trillion miles away, with 140 trillion times more water than Earth. |
| The largest known black holes are 20 billion times more massive than the Sun. |
| The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long; more than the number of atoms in the universe. |
| The nest of the bald eagle can weigh well over a ton. |
| The oldest living thing on earth is the world-famous General Sherman tree, a forest giant now growing in Sequoia National Park. Nearly 4,000 years old, it’s as ancient as the Egyptian pyramids. |
| The Solar System is traveling around the galaxy at more than half a million miles per hour. |
| The storage capacity of the human brain exceeds 4 terabytes. |
| The Sun gets 4 million tons lighter every second. |
| The sun is losing mass at an estimated rate of five million tons per second. It is so big, however, that even at this rate it will take about five billion years before it begins to cool. |
| The sun is so large that, if it were hollow, it could contain more than one million worlds of the size of our earth. There are stars in space so large that they could easily hold 500 million suns of the size of ours. |
| The sun’s powerful gravitational field could hold planets in orbit to a distance 1,000 times greater than the distance of Pluto from the sun. |
| The tallest wave thus far reliable measured at sea registered 112 feet. Experts suspect killer waves that leave no witnesses may be nearly twice as high. |
| The temperature of a typical lightening bolt can reach 50,000 F degrees, this is five times greater than the Sun’s surface. |
| The terminal velocity of a raindrop is 30 feet per second, or 22 miles per hour. |
| The total quantity of energy in the universe is constant. |
| The vast galaxy we live in is spinning at the incredible speed of about 490,000 miles an hour. But even at this breakneck speed, our galaxy still needs over 200 million years to make one rotation. And there are at least one trillion over galaxies in the universe. |
| The zero was invented in India. So was the concept of infinity. |
| There are as many molecules in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic Ocean. |
| There are now more white-tailed deer in Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin than existed in the entire United States at the time of Columbus. |
| There were about sixty million bison when the Europeans landed in America. By the 1880s, all but five hundred bison were killed. Today there are 350,000 bison in America. |
| Tidal waves on the open ocean sometimes reach speeds of more than five hundred nautical miles per hour. |
| To see clearly in a working situation, a 40-year old requires twice as much light as a 20-year old, a 60-year old requires four to five times what a 20-year old needs. |
| Traveling at the speed of the fastest elevator in the Empire State Building, it would take a bit more than 30 minutes to reach the bottom of the Mariana trench. |
| Trees sleep at night to rest their branches. |
| Two common objects have the same function, but one has thousands of moving parts, while the other has absolutely no moving parts—an hourglass and a sundial. |
| Uncertainty principle is the principle which states that one can never be exactly sure of both the position and the velocity of a particle; the more accurately one knows the one, the less accurately one can know the other. |
| What is the easternmost state? Alaska. Alaska’s Aleutian Islands extend all the way into the eastern hemisphere, and thus contain the easternmost point of the United States. The islands also mark the westernmost sites in the U.S. |
| What’s the rainiest place on Earth? The mountain in the center of the Hawaiian island of Kauai gets 460 inches of rain a year. |
| Without using precision instruments, Eratosthemres measured the radius of the Earth in the 3rd century B.C. and came within 1% of the value determined by today’s technology. |
| You only need to be three feet underwater to be protected from bullets. |
| Your brain is at its biggest in the morning and gradually shrinks as the day goes on. |
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