Here are just a few:
2/ It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun's surface to the Earth.
4/ 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
10/ Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
12/ If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
16/ Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
21/ Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
48/ The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
55/ More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
63/ It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.
76/ One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
89/ The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
95/ 90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
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