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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:28 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:29 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:30 pm
bump6
If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:31 pm
bump7
If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors - assuming no incest was involved.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:32 pm
bump8
The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:33 pm
bump9
It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to earth
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:34 pm
bump10
An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single species of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:35 pm
bump11
If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom - 4,000 miles down.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:36 pm
bump12
Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:37 pm
bump13
The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:39 pm
bump14
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:40 pm
bump15
A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can’t.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:41 pm
bump16
Everytime you sneeze your heart stops a second.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:05 pm
bump17
There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice.
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