1) Collectively speaking, humans have spent longer playing World of Warcraft (over 6 million years) than we have existed as a species separate from chimpanzees.
2) A dog has the same ecological footprint as two Toyota Landcruisers; a cat the same environmental effect as a Volkswagen Golf; two hamsters the same as a plasma TV.
3) In 1251, Henry III was given a polar bear by the king of Norway. He kept it in the Tower of London, on a long chain so that it could swim in the Thames.
4) Until the 1960′s, the only reliable pregnancy test was to inject a woman’s urine into a female African clawed frog. If the woman was pregnant, the frog would ovulate within 12 hours.
5) About 65 billion neutrinos will pass through your fingernail in a second
6) If all the LEGO bricks ever manufactured were clipped on top of one another, they would make a tower ten times as high as the distance to the Moon.
7) Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
8) If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side.
9) A medium-sized cumulus cloud weighs about the same as 80 elephants.
10) A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.
11) There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean.
12) If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
13) The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
14) If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
15) More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
16) The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40.
17) A red blood cell can make a complete circuit of your body in 20 seconds.
18) The strongest creatures on Earth are gonorrhea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own body weight.
19) One in ten European babies is conceived in an IKEA bed. (Not much science in this one, but funny enough to know :))
20) The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life
21) There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
22) Each person sheds 40 lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
23) Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second – 86 million each day.
24) One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
25) Human saliva contains a painkiller called opiorphin that is six times more powerful than morphine.
26) Girls have more taste buds than boys.
27) When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
28) Gorillas and potatoes have two more chromosomes than humans do.
29) A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
30) Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
31) The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
32) A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
33) Octopuses have three hearts.
34) At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
35) The name of the first human being in the Norse mythology is Ask
36) The Queen is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth’s land surface
37) As it grows, sweet corn makes a squeaking noise like two balloons rubbing against each other.
38) Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection. (IT’S JUST A MASK IN THE PICTURE!)
39) Biologically speaking, bugs are insects that “suck”.
40) If the 5 trillion spiders in Netherlands took to eating humans rather than insects, they’d consume all 16.7 million Dutch people just in three days.
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