- There are about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left.
- One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
- It takes 4,000 gallons of fuel to get a jumbo jet off the ground.
- During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
- 100 People Killed In U.S. Annually by lightning
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox car can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
- A human with his/her mouth glued to a hose, and nostrils shut, can absorb approximately eight gallons of water before bursting.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond.
- One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
- The amount of gold dissolved in the oceans is nearly ten million tons, which is about 180 times the total amount of gold dug in mines in the entire history of humanity.
- A normal raindrop falls at about 7 miles per hour.
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