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loverfellow - 16 Sep 2006, 08:42 pm
Guys, here I would like to present more interesting facts from my collection of millions of words.

1/ The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact
terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second - that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per
second).
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
kilometres 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.
18/ -------
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 galexies 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 haemoglobin molecules.
59/ A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.
60/ Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation 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 Artic 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 travelling 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 kilometres 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 occurence 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/ Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars

I hope you would like.
Pundit - 18 Sep 2006, 05:25 am
Really super information specially its great feeling to be in 10% of ppl ever born and alive.
Nintendo - 21 Sep 2006, 03:59 am
8)

It means pig is very very sexy. :mrgreen:
book - 21 Sep 2006, 11:39 am
QUOTE:
8)

It means pig is very very sexy. :mrgreen:


Why r u spreading filth in this study forum.

You should be ashamed of your self.

Tell me what is the purpose of your filthy post?
book - 21 Sep 2006, 11:41 am
MODS please take appropriate action
Accountant - 22 Sep 2006, 06:57 am
Book, :?
what's wrong with it ? If pig has longer orgasm time period. :rolleyes:
Fu - 22 Sep 2006, 01:43 pm
QUOTE:
MODS please take appropriate action


What is filthy in his post ?
Pig ?
Orgasm ?
or very very sexy ?

please share your views with us.
book - 22 Sep 2006, 11:43 pm
QUOTE:

Book,
what's wrong with it ? If pig has longer orgasm time period. :rolleyes:



QUOTE:
What is filthy in his post ?
Pig ?
Orgasm ?
or very very sexy ?

please share your views with us.


To take out sexual points from facts is not an appropriate action for this study educational forum, as it is visited by elders and juniors alike, e.g. the young cat students.
However in no way do i degrade the poster i.e. Nintendo. He is a good member of our forum and i respect him.
loverfellow - 24 Sep 2006, 05:03 pm
QUOTE:
However in no way do i degrade the poster i.e. Nintendo. He is a good member of our forum and i respect him.


Well, I don't want to comment on this issue. But Book, you claim that you didn't degrade Nintendo. Just look at your words. What you consider it degrade or respect.
QUOTE:

Why r u spreading filth in this study forum.

You should be ashamed of your self.

Tell me what is the purpose of your filthy post?


I have told you that there are other ways to advise someone instead of being harsh.
book - 24 Sep 2006, 09:59 pm
QUOTE:
QUOTE:
However in no way do i degrade the poster i.e. Nintendo. He is a good member of our forum and i respect him.


Well, I don't want to comment on this issue. But Book, you claim that you didn't degrade Nintendo. Just look at your words. What you consider it degrade or respect.
QUOTE:

Why r u spreading filth in this study forum.

You should be ashamed of your self.

Tell me what is the purpose of your filthy post?





First of all the absense of respect does not mean degradation.
I said I respect the forum member Nintendo and also I played with the Nintendo Game when I was young. Who else likes Nintendo game?


QUOTE:
I have told you that there are other ways to advise someone instead of being harsh.


Aunty give you advice someplace where it is needed.
Assadpervaiz - 19 Jan 2008, 03:12 am
QUOTE:
Guys, here I would like to present more interesting facts from my collection of millions of words.

1/ The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact
terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second - that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per
second).
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
kilometres 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.
18/ -------
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 galexies 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 haemoglobin molecules.
59/ A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.
60/ Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation 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 Artic 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 travelling 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 kilometres 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 occurence 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/ Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars

I hope you would like.