Monday, November 12, 2007

Amazing Facts

  • Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
  • Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
  • The number of people alive on Earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died ever.
  • Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
  • There was one a town in west Virginia called "6"
  • Ten tons of space dust falls on Earth every day.
  • A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
  • Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
  • Russia has the most movie theatres in the world.
  • The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
  • Right handed people live on; average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
  • Coca-cola was originally green.
  • At 40 degrees centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
  • More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
  • Pearls melt in vinegar.
  • There are more than 100 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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