Intresting Facts

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If a spaceship approached a black hole, it would appear to go slower the closer it got to it;

Then it would appear to stop ... turn orange, then red, and fade into nothingness!

Dogs have twice as many muscles for moving their ears as people do;

A giraffe can clean its own ears with its tongue!

In ancient <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on">Egypt</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION></ST1:PLACE>, the process of mummification took about 70 days;

Scientists estimate that over 70 million mummies were made in <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on">Egypt</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION></ST1:PLACE>!

The human jaw can chew with 200lbs of pressure;

Alligators snap their jaws shut with 2,000 lbs of force.

It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 million listeners;

It took four years for the Internet to reach 50 million users.

At an ocean depth of 45 yards, less than 1 percent of the sun's light is still visible;

Sharks can detect light 10-times dimmer than what humans can see.

Number of days a human can live without water: 3;

Number of days a cockroach can live without its head: 9.

There are 2.5 trillion stars in the Milky Way;

There are 250 trillion blood vessels in the human body.

Sound level the human ear can withstand without damage: 130 decimals;

Sound level of an average rock concert: 150 decimals.

Lightning strikes the earth about 100 times every second;

One lightning bolt could power a 100-watt light bulb for three months.

When complete, the International Space Station will be the length of a football field;

... and the ISS will be visible to the naked eye to over 90 percent of the world's population.

Estimated number of robots in use around the world: 1.4 million;

Worldwide, about 50 percent of industrial robots are used in making cars.

Some snails can sleep up to three years at a time;

Over a lifetime, the average person will spend 25 years sleeping.

Over 130,000 cell-phone screens could fit onto one IMAX screen;

An IMAX projector weighs about 2 tons — the weight of a small car!;

And the average height of an IMAX screen is 8 storys high!

A helicopter's main rotor spins about 300 times a minute;

Number of times a puffin flaps its wings each minute: 300!

Each year, 125,000 tons of batteries are discarded in the <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">U.S.</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>;

That's the weight of the <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Washington</ST1:PLACENAME> <ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">Monument</ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACE> and Lincoln Memorial combined.

There are 4 million miles of roads in the <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">U.S.</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> alone;

That's enough to stretch from the earth to the moon 8 times!

A 150 lb. person would weigh only 25 pounds on the moon;

On the sun, that same person would weigh 4,200 lbs.

The blink of an eye lasts about 1/10 of a second;

The average person blinks about 4.2 million times per year.

The average life of a taste bud is 10 days;

The number of taste buds on the tongue: 10,000.

The average human heart beats about 75 times a minute;

In one year a human heart pumps enough blood to fill an Olympic-size pool.

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