• 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
• Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide
• 65% of those with autism are left handed
• The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred Rompelberg
• A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons
• A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs
• We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine
• The combined length of the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles
• The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet
• The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years
• 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
• The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees C during the day, and, at night, plummets to minus 180 degrees centigrade
• The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life
• Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur
• A single rye plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground
• Butterflies taste with their hind feet and their taste sensation works on touch - this allows them to determine whether a leaf is edible
• The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from ten to twenty-five gallons in twenty-four hours
• The ant can lift things 10 times its own weigh.
• A human being drinks 16,000 tons of water in a lifetime.
• The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.
• Turtles can live for more than 100 years.
• Turtles can live for more than 100 years
• If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of 18 square feet.
• A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
• We blink 25 times a minute.
• The first drawings of a helicopter are nearly 500 years old.
• A butterfly warms up its body up to 81 degrees Fahrenheit before flying.
• To melt away 1 pound of fat you will need to walk 34 miles
• An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.
• Ocean waves can travel as fast as a JET Plane.
• The small intestine is 7-8 meters long, making it the largest organ inside the human body. The large intestine is only 1-1.5 meters long!
• The star fish is actually not a fish, its an animal. ( phylum : Echinodermate )
• Male mosquitoes do not bite
• A whale can swim for 3 months without eating.
• The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet.
• Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
• A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
• The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo dragon which reaches up to 3 meters and sometimes longer was named because of it's fiery tongue. It is often longer than a car.
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