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- An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
- On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
- The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
- A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
- Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
- At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
- The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
- Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
- More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
- The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
- It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.
- Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
- The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
- Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
- Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.
- Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
- A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
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