Did you Know that rats can't vomit? that's why rat poison works.
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... Even your heart,&
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day.
The swordtail is the fastest swimmer of all the fish
Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold; there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
Did you know pearls are found in oysters? The largest pearl ever found was 620 carats.
The heaviest fish ever caught was
the OCEAN SUNFISH. It weighed 4,928 lbs.
Ocean Sunfish
The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and it's tongue is as long as an elephant.
Did you know fishes cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it?
The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.
Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, rest 97% salted. Of that 3%, over 2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less than 1% fresh water is found in lakes, rivers and underground.
Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.
The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.
The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed.
The deepest depth in the ocean is 36,198 feet (6.9 miles or 11 kilometers) at the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean well south of Japan near the Mariana Islands.
In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA.
Asia Continent is covered 30% of the total earth land area, but represent 60% of the world's population.
Earth is tipped at 23 and 1/2 degrees in orbit. That axis is what causes our seasons.
Groundwater comprises a 30 times greater volume than all freshwater lakes, and more than 3,000 times what's in the world's streams and rivers at any given time.
Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
The deepest hole ever made by humans is in Kola Peninsula in Russia, was completed in 1989, creating a hole 12,262 meters (7.6 miles) deep.
Each winter there are about 1 septillion (1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 or a trillion trillion) snow crystals that drop from the sky.
One-tenth of the Earth's surface is always under the cover of ice. And almost 90 per cent of that ice is to be found in the continent of Antarctica.
The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).
The sunrays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds.
The temperature of Earth increases about 36 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) for every kilometer (about 0.62 miles) you go down.
The gravity on Mars is 38% of that found on Earth. So a 100 pounds person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
The age of the earth is Loudly proclaimed by the scientific establishment of evolution believers and the mass media as being around 4.6 billion years old.
A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.
At least 1,000 million grams, or roughly 1,000 tons of material (dust) enters the atmosphere every year and makes its way to Earths surface.
Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
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The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.
Tibet is the highest country in the world. Its average height above sea level is 4500 meters.
The Antarctic ice sheet is 3-4 km thick, covers 13 million sq km and has temperatures as low as -70 degrees centigrade.
The Pacific Ocean has an average depth of 2.4 miles (3.9 kilometers).
Chile (Africa) is the driest place on Earth, gets just 0.03 inches (0.76 millimeters) of rain per year.
The temperature of Earth near the center, its thought to be at least 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit (3,870 Celsius).
The lowest dry point on earth is the Dead Sea in the Middle East is about 1300 feet (400 meters) below sea level.
Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
Scientists have discovered that copper pollution of the atmosphere occurred about 2500 years ago. This was discovered by analyzing ice cores from Greenland. The pollution was attributed to the Romans who used copper for military purposes and to produce coins.
The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
A car traveling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
The United States consumes 25% of all the world’s energy.
