Interesting Facts About The World

Here are the interesting facts about the
world :-

1.Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s
have already traveled past 100,000 stars

2. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to
travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

3. October 12th, 1999 was declared “The Day
of Six Billion” based on United Nations
projections.

4. 10 percent of all human beings ever born
are alive at this very moment.

5. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels
through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

6. Every year over one million earthquakes
shake the Earth.

7. When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force
was so great it could be heard 4,800
kilometers away in Australia.

8. The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg
and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

9. Every second around 100 lightning bolts
strike the Earth.

10. Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

11. In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of
London broke free from the Antarctic ice
shelf .

12. If you could drive your car straight up you
would arrive in space in just over an hour.

13. Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

14. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the
same age as the Moon and the Sun.

15. The dinosaurs became extinct before the
Rockies or the Alps were formed.

16. Female black widow spiders eat their
males after mating.

17. When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration
is 20 times that of the space shuttle during
launch.

19. If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the
nearest star would be 445 miles away.

20. The Australian billygoat plum contains 100
times more vitamin C than an orange.

21. Astronauts cannot belch – there is no
gravity to separate liquid from gas in their
stomachs.

22. The air at the summit of Mount Everest,
29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air
at sea level.

23. One million, million, million, million,
millionth of a second after the Big Bang the
Universe was the size of a …pea.

24. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss
Friedrich Mieschler.

25. The molecular structure of DNA was first
determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.

26. The first synthetic human chromosome
was constructed by US scientists in 1997.

27. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by
Galileo.

28. Englishman Roger Bacon invented the
magnifying glass in 1250.

29. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

30. Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize
for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

31. The tallest tree ever was an Australian
eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435
feet tall.

32. Christian Barnard performed the first heart
transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18
days.

33. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer
than the Wright brother’s first flight.

34. An electric eel can produce a shock of up
to 650 volts.

35. ‘Wireless’ communications took a giant
leap forward in 1962 with the launch of
Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying
telephone and satellite TV signals.

36. The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt
around 2300 BC.

37. The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5
humans it infects.

38. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of
fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

39. Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in
any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours
(in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare.
They never lie down.

40. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

41. Without its lining of mucus your stomach
would digest itself.

42. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas
have 14 and crayfish have 200.

43. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in
the human body.

44. An individual blood cell takes about 60
seconds to make a complete circuit of the
body.

45. Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of
Mars.

46. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell
was buried the entire US telephone system
was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

47. The low frequency call of the humpback
whale is the loudest noise made by a living
creature.

48. The call of the humpback whale is louder
than Concorde and can be heard from 500
miles away.

49. A quarter of the world’s plants are
threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

50. Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or
her lifetime.

51. At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are
the largest on the planet.

52. The largest galaxies contain a million,
million stars.

53. The Universe contains over 100 billion
galaxies.

54. Wounds infested with maggots heal
quickly and without spread of gangrene or
other infection.

55. More germs are transferred shaking hands
than kissing.

56. The longest glacier in Antarctica, the
Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40
miles wide.

57. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can
hit you is 18mph.

58. A healthy person has 6,000 million, million,
million hemoglobin molecules.

59. A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means
that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.

60. Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10
Dalmatian dogs to suffer from hearing
disability.

61. The world’s smallest winged insect, the
Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the
eye of a housefly.

62. If the Sun were the size of a beach ball
then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball
and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

63. It would take over an hour for a heavy
object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest
part of the ocean.

64. There are more living organisms on the
skin of each human than there are humans on
the surface of the earth.

65. The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles
from the Arctic to Mexico and back every
year.

66. Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000
individual atoms.

67. Around a million, billion neutrinos from the
Sun will pass through your body while you
read this sentence.

68….and now they are already past the Moon.

69. Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant
galaxies.

70. Quasars are the most distant objects in
the Universe.

71. The Saturn V rocket which carried man to
the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty
747 jumbo jets.

72. Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a
day, two hours more than the sloth.

73. Light would take .13 seconds to travel
around the Earth.

74. Males produce one thousand sperm cells
each second – 86 million each day.

75. Neutron stars are so dense that a
teaspoonful would weigh more than all the
people on Earth.

76. One in every 2000 babies is born with a
tooth.

77. Every hour the Universe expands by a
billion miles in all directions.

78. Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned
TV set is the background radiation from the
Big Bang.

79. Even traveling at the speed of light it
would take 2 million years to reach the
nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.

80. The temperature in Antarctica plummets
as low as -35 degrees Celsius.

81. At over 2000 kilometers long The Great
Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on
Earth.

82. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh
over 100 million tons.

83. The risk of being struck by a falling
meteorite for a human is one occurrence every
9,300 years.

84. The driest inhabited place in the world is
Aswan, Egypt where the annual average
rainfall is .02 inches.

85. The deepest part of any ocean in the
world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with
a depth of 35,797 feet.

86. The largest meteorite craters in the world
are in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and in
Vredefort, South Africa.

87. The largest desert in the world, the
Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.

88. The largest dinosaur ever discovered was
Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and
weighed up to 80 tonnes.

89. The African Elephant gestates for 22
months.

90. The short-nosed Bandicoot has a
gestation period of only 12 days.

91. The mortality rate if bitten by a Black
Mamba snake is over 95%.

92. In the 14th century the Black Death killed
75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on
the black rat.

93. A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times
more sensitive than a humans.

94. A typical hurricane produces the nergy
equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.

95. 90% of those who die from hurricanes die
from drowning.

96. To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket
need to travel at 7 miles a second.

97. If every star in the Milky Way was a grain
of salt they would fill an Olympic sized
swimming pool.

98. Microbial life can survive on the cooling
rods of a nuclear reactor.

99. Micro-organisms have been brought back
to life after being frozen in perma-frost for
three million years.

100. The speed of light is generally rounded
down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact
terms it is 299,792,458 m.s (meters per
second – that is equal to 186, 287.49 miles
per second).
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