1. The sun makes up more than 99% of the mass of the solar system.
2. Humans can distinguish between at least a trillion smells.
3. An asteroid in our solar system has rings, like Saturn.
4. Each of a tarsier’s eyeballs is as big as its brain.
5. Humans can’t breathe and swallow at the same time.
6. There are about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in a human body.
7. Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the Sun.
8. The Milky Way has four spiral arms, not two.
9. If you cry in space the tears just stick to your face.
10. Ladybirds can fly at speeds up to 60 kph
11. 10% of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
12. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph
13. When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia
14. There’s a mammal in Australia that has sex until it disintegrates.
15. An orgasm can clear your sinuses
16. The world’s oceans contain 20 million tons of gold.
17. If the oceans dried out, the salt left over would cover the continents to a depth of 5 feet.
18. There are more cells of bacteria in your body than there are human cells.
19. Every second around 100 lightning bolts strikes the Earth. And Every year lightning kills 1000 people
20. In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf.
21. Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
22. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
23. When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch
24. The human brain weighs 3 pounds, comprising of 60% of fat and is one of the fattest organs in the human body
25. Human brain has the capacity to generate approximately 23 watts of power when awake.
26. Of the total blood and oxygen that is produced in our body, the brain gets 20% of it.
27. One million, million, million, million, a millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea
28. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo
29. In early pregnancy, the neurons in our brain develop at an alarming rate of 250,000 per minute.
30. There are roughly 2 pints of water in every cubic foot of soil on Mars
31. Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.
32. The saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.
33. Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
34. Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
35. Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second – 86 million each day.
36. Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.
37. One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
38. Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
39. Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.
40. Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
41. The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.
42. At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
43. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
44. Therisk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.
45. The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.
46. The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
47. The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.
48. The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
49. The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.
50. The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
51. The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.
52. The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.
53. In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.
54. A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
55. A typical hurricane produces the nergy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.
56. 90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
57. To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
58. If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.
59. Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.
60. Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.
