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 percen
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...
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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.
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