Incredible Facts About the World
Marty Mcfly
Published
10/08/2013
Pretty cool facts about life on our planet
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In an average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator -
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Frogs can't swallow without blinking because their eyeballs help push food into their stomachs -
3.
Your skin renews itself conmpletely every 28 days -
4.
Astatine is the rarest element on Earth with less than 1 gram existing in the crust. -
5.
Humans have 100,000 hairs on their heads while Otters have 160,000 per sq cm -
6.
Cows produce nearly 140 liters of dung daily -
7.
In one day 2 cows could fill your bathtub with poop -
8.
The jaw is the most commonly used joint in the human body -
9.
In one square meter of dirt there can be up to 200 worms -
10.
Starfish are not fish and killer whales are not whales -
11.
Dolphins can call each other by name -
12.
One piece of space junk returns to Earth every day -
13.
The average age of a pilliow is 6 years -
14.
After those 6 years 10 of the pillow's weight consists of dead skin, mites, and mite dung -
15.
In all of history man has only pulled out two olympic sized swimming pools of gold from the Earth -
16.
The naked mole rat is immune to cancer and can live with almost no oxygen -
17.
The star nosed mole is the fastest eater in the world -
18.
Due to gravity the theoretical maximum height of a tree is 130 meters -
19.
The mouth of a blue whale can hold its own body weight in water -
20.
The longest animal is a marine worm that can grow to 55 meters -
21.
The largest living thing is a fungus in Oregon that covers 10 sq km -
22.
An average adult contains 7 quintillion joules of potential energy -
23.
That's the equivalent of 30 hydrogen bombs -
24.
The technology in one Gameboy exceeds all the computing power used to put man on the moon -
25.
99 of the Earth's gold is in its core
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