Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Some Facts


  • If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.

  • If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was involved.

  • The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.

  • It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to earth.

  • An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single species of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived.

  • If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.

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