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-Starfishes don't have a brain. -The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.-The average man has about 20 square feet of skin. The outer skin is replaced about once a month.Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-1% of land area in the US has been hit by tornadoes in the last 100 years.-The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old. It has already used up almost half of its hydrogen supply in its core. The Sun will run out of this hydrogen supply in about 5 billion years.-During the average lifetime the human heart pumps 48 million gallons of blood around the body. Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-The diameter of the Sun is about 1,4 million kilometers. This is 109 times more the Earth's! (The Earth's diameter is 12 756 km) The Sun's volume is big enough to hold more than 1,3 million Earths!- Venus spins on its axis in the opposite direction as Earth and most other planets. This means that the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east on Venus.-The Alaskan brown bear is the world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds-The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog -The original name for the butterfly was flutterby-A cheetah can run 46 miles per hour-A blue whale's whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal -The fastest water mammal is the dolphin, they can swim up to 35 miles per hour.-Some breeds of vultures can fly at altitudes as high as 36,900 feet. -A rhinoceros's horn is made of the same stuff found in human hair and fingernails which is called keratin.-There is an average of 2 earth quakes every minute in the world-The most humid city in the United States is Cincinnati Ohio-The circumference of the earth at the equator is 40,066 km-The skin of the average adult weighs about 5.9 pounds and is considered the heaviest organ. Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-The first visit to Antarctica was not thought to be until around 1800-The Crater of Haleakala Volcano is the world’s largest known dormant volcano-The average human body contains enough iron to make a three-inch nail. Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-The Nile River is the longest river in the world-The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird they weigh about 1oz.-A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew, they use their very powerful digestive acids to break down food-The mouse is the most common mammal in the US -Alligators will sometimes swallow rocks to help them grind up food in their stomachs -The SIBERIAN TIGER is the largest cat in the world. It weighs up to 660 lbs-The elephant is the largest animal on land -"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.maddhacker24-The battle of Lexington was won by Major Pitcairn (British).radams-Muscles in the human eye move an average of 100,000 times a day-Right now we are moving at 66,700 mph, this is the speed at which theearth orbits the Sun.-During the average lifetime about 40 pounds of dead skin is shed. Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-Humans have dammed up over 10 trillion gallons of water over the last 4 decades-The longest bone in the human body is the femur-The Amazon River at its estuary is over 202 miles wide-An average of 43 muscles are needed to make a frown, but only 17 are needed to smile. Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-It can snow in Hawaii! The Hawaiian volcanic mountain of Mauna Kea (Hawaiian for "white mountain") sometimes gets enough snow to ski or snowboard on. Its summit is 13,796 feet and December to March temps can range between 25 and 40 Degrees F.-The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is the deepest spot in the world's oceans at 35,827 ft deep-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. -It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. -Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.-A cat's urine glows under a black light. -An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. -A catfish has more tastebuds than any other animal -Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years. -No one really can decide how many different countries there are, depending on thesource there are 189, 191, 192 or 193 in the world today-The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds. Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-Greenland is part of the continent of North America-The stellar eagle is the largest bird in the world with a wingspan up to 14 feet, it is native to Siberia and inhabits the north eastern Siberian coast and the Alaskan peninsula.-The highest mountain in North America in Mt Mckinley (Denali,meaning the tall one) at 20,320'-Antarctica has no year round population other than research groups-The Amazon River basin is the world's largest rain forest-An average of 144 bones in the human body fuse together between birthand adulthood-The average life expectancy in the US is 76.2 years-The bird, known as the kea, is the world’s only alpine parrot-The planet of Saturn has 18 known moons-An Astronomical Unit (AU) is used to measure distances in space, it is the average distance between the earth and the sun, about 150 million km(93 million miles)-The first wolf pack spotted after there disappearance in the lower 48 states was in Glacier national park Montana in 1981-The difference between antlers and horns on animals is that antlers are shed annually and horns are not.-Both male and female caribou have horns-The Whale Shark is the biggest fish in the world. -About 1000 Earths would fit inside Jupiter.-The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long.-Each year, North America and Europe move 4 cm away from each other due to the movement of continent-bearing plates in the Atlantic.-The Earth is rotating slower. Because of the Moon orbiting the Earth, the oceans undergo friction with the land (tidal forces), which brakes the rotation speed of the Earth and increases our days with 0.0023 seconds per century. 900 million years ago, one day on Earth were only 18 hours long! -The Amazon River is home to the world’s only nut and seed eating fish-The peach was the first fruit eaten on the moon-Pine pitch is flammable in the rain-The annual per capita wine consumption of France is over 21 gallons, compared to the US at 2.1 gallons.-A snow avalanche is most common on leeward slopes with a slope of 30-45 degrees-Once a person is totally buried by an avalanche there is only a 1 in 3 chance of survival-There is estimated to be more than 100 undiscovered species in theAmazon River Basin-La Boca in Southern Buenos Aires is the birthplace of the tango-The largest exclusively freshwater fish in the world is the Arapaima, it can be 15 ft/4m long and can weigh up to 440lbs.-The Amazon River sheds 1/5 of the world's river water annually-The strawberry is the only fruit with it's seeds on the outside.-The total population of the US in 2002 was: 288,368,698Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Web: www.census.gov-The most spoken languages in are:Chinese Mandarin spoken by about 874 million Hindi spoken by about 366 million English spoken by about 341 million Spanish spoken by about 323 million Bengali spoken by about 207 million-The International Space Station orbits earth at 17000mph-Water is its heaviest at 39 degrees F.-Light travels at 186300 miles per second-Man's fastest spacecraft travels at upwards of 20km/sec-Most rainfall from thunderstorms begins it's fall to earth’s surface as ice becauseof the cold temperatures at high elevation-The far side of our Moon was not seen at all until 1959 when the Soviet spacecraft, Luna 3 flew by and took pictures.-During landing of a space shuttle, it takes approximately one minute between touchdown of the wheels and wheelstop, the point at which the shuttle comes to a complete stop.-The Moon is moving away from the Earth at about 3-4 cm per year!-The Sun is made mostly of helium and hydrogen with a surface temperature of 6000°C.-Mars has the largest mountain in the Solar System named Olympus Mons. It is 26 km high, almost 3 times taller than Mt. Everest!-Jupiter has no seasons. Planets can only have seasons if they are tilted on their axes. (Earth is tilted 23,5°) Jupiter's axis of rotation is only tilted 3°.-The Universe is thought to be about 15 to 20 billion years old and according to Einstein has no center or edge. It bends into an endless curve.-Pluto has temperatures ranging between - 230° C and - 200° C.-The Amazon River is approximately 6280km long-Mt Whitney at 14,494' is the highest mountain in the lower 48 states of the US and death valley at -282' is the lowest point. They are both in California-The Northernmost point in the United States is Point Barrow, Alaska-The Easternmost point in the United States is West Quoddy Head, Maine -The Southernmost point in the United States is Ka Lae South Cape, Hawaii-The Westernmost point in the United States is Cape Wrangell, Alaska Attu Island-The high altitude Atacama Desert in Chile is said to be the driest desert on earthYou Got a Fact that GotFacts don't? >> Submit-a-Fact
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-Starfishes don't have a brain. -The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.-The average man has about 20 square feet of skin. The outer skin is replaced about once a month.Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-1% of land area in the US has been hit by tornadoes in the last 100 years.-The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old. It has already used up almost half of its hydrogen supply in its core. The Sun will run out of this hydrogen supply in about 5 billion years.-During the average lifetime the human heart pumps 48 million gallons of blood around the body. Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-The diameter of the Sun is about 1,4 million kilometers. This is 109 times more the Earth's! (The Earth's diameter is 12 756 km) The Sun's volume is big enough to hold more than 1,3 million Earths!- Venus spins on its axis in the opposite direction as Earth and most other planets. This means that the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east on Venus.-The Alaskan brown bear is the world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds-The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog -The original name for the butterfly was flutterby-A cheetah can run 46 miles per hour-A blue whale's whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal -The fastest water mammal is the dolphin, they can swim up to 35 miles per hour.-Some breeds of vultures can fly at altitudes as high as 36,900 feet. -A rhinoceros's horn is made of the same stuff found in human hair and fingernails which is called keratin.-There is an average of 2 earth quakes every minute in the world-The most humid city in the United States is Cincinnati Ohio-The circumference of the earth at the equator is 40,066 km-The skin of the average adult weighs about 5.9 pounds and is considered the heaviest organ. Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-The first visit to Antarctica was not thought to be until around 1800-The Crater of Haleakala Volcano is the world’s largest known dormant volcano-The average human body contains enough iron to make a three-inch nail. Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-The Nile River is the longest river in the world-The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird they weigh about 1oz.-A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew, they use their very powerful digestive acids to break down food-The mouse is the most common mammal in the US -Alligators will sometimes swallow rocks to help them grind up food in their stomachs -The SIBERIAN TIGER is the largest cat in the world. It weighs up to 660 lbs-The elephant is the largest animal on land -"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.maddhacker24-The battle of Lexington was won by Major Pitcairn (British).radams-Muscles in the human eye move an average of 100,000 times a day-Right now we are moving at 66,700 mph, this is the speed at which theearth orbits the Sun.-During the average lifetime about 40 pounds of dead skin is shed. Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-Humans have dammed up over 10 trillion gallons of water over the last 4 decades-The longest bone in the human body is the femur-The Amazon River at its estuary is over 202 miles wide-An average of 43 muscles are needed to make a frown, but only 17 are needed to smile. Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-It can snow in Hawaii! The Hawaiian volcanic mountain of Mauna Kea (Hawaiian for "white mountain") sometimes gets enough snow to ski or snowboard on. Its summit is 13,796 feet and December to March temps can range between 25 and 40 Degrees F.-The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is the deepest spot in the world's oceans at 35,827 ft deep-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. -It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. -Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.-A cat's urine glows under a black light. -An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. -A catfish has more tastebuds than any other animal -Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years. -No one really can decide how many different countries there are, depending on thesource there are 189, 191, 192 or 193 in the world today-The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds. Astounding Averages buy it at Books at Amazon.com-Greenland is part of the continent of North America-The stellar eagle is the largest bird in the world with a wingspan up to 14 feet, it is native to Siberia and inhabits the north eastern Siberian coast and the Alaskan peninsula.-The highest mountain in North America in Mt Mckinley (Denali,meaning the tall one) at 20,320'-Antarctica has no year round population other than research groups-The Amazon River basin is the world's largest rain forest-An average of 144 bones in the human body fuse together between birthand adulthood-The average life expectancy in the US is 76.2 years-The bird, known as the kea, is the world’s only alpine parrot-The planet of Saturn has 18 known moons-An Astronomical Unit (AU) is used to measure distances in space, it is the average distance between the earth and the sun, about 150 million km(93 million miles)-The first wolf pack spotted after there disappearance in the lower 48 states was in Glacier national park Montana in 1981-The difference between antlers and horns on animals is that antlers are shed annually and horns are not.-Both male and female caribou have horns-The Whale Shark is the biggest fish in the world. -About 1000 Earths would fit inside Jupiter.-The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long.-Each year, North America and Europe move 4 cm away from each other due to the movement of continent-bearing plates in the Atlantic.-The Earth is rotating slower. Because of the Moon orbiting the Earth, the oceans undergo friction with the land (tidal forces), which brakes the rotation speed of the Earth and increases our days with 0.0023 seconds per century. 900 million years ago, one day on Earth were only 18 hours long! -The Amazon River is home to the world’s only nut and seed eating fish-The peach was the first fruit eaten on the moon-Pine pitch is flammable in the rain-The annual per capita wine consumption of France is over 21 gallons, compared to the US at 2.1 gallons.-A snow avalanche is most common on leeward slopes with a slope of 30-45 degrees-Once a person is totally buried by an avalanche there is only a 1 in 3 chance of survival-There is estimated to be more than 100 undiscovered species in theAmazon River Basin-La Boca in Southern Buenos Aires is the birthplace of the tango-The largest exclusively freshwater fish in the world is the Arapaima, it can be 15 ft/4m long and can weigh up to 440lbs.-The Amazon River sheds 1/5 of the world's river water annually-The strawberry is the only fruit with it's seeds on the outside.-The total population of the US in 2002 was: 288,368,698Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Web: www.census.gov-The most spoken languages in are:Chinese Mandarin spoken by about 874 million Hindi spoken by about 366 million English spoken by about 341 million Spanish spoken by about 323 million Bengali spoken by about 207 million-The International Space Station orbits earth at 17000mph-Water is its heaviest at 39 degrees F.-Light travels at 186300 miles per second-Man's fastest spacecraft travels at upwards of 20km/sec-Most rainfall from thunderstorms begins it's fall to earth’s surface as ice becauseof the cold temperatures at high elevation-The far side of our Moon was not seen at all until 1959 when the Soviet spacecraft, Luna 3 flew by and took pictures.-During landing of a space shuttle, it takes approximately one minute between touchdown of the wheels and wheelstop, the point at which the shuttle comes to a complete stop.-The Moon is moving away from the Earth at about 3-4 cm per year!-The Sun is made mostly of helium and hydrogen with a surface temperature of 6000°C.-Mars has the largest mountain in the Solar System named Olympus Mons. It is 26 km high, almost 3 times taller than Mt. Everest!-Jupiter has no seasons. Planets can only have seasons if they are tilted on their axes. (Earth is tilted 23,5°) Jupiter's axis of rotation is only tilted 3°.-The Universe is thought to be about 15 to 20 billion years old and according to Einstein has no center or edge. It bends into an endless curve.-Pluto has temperatures ranging between - 230° C and - 200° C.-The Amazon River is approximately 6280km long-Mt Whitney at 14,494' is the highest mountain in the lower 48 states of the US and death valley at -282' is the lowest point. They are both in California-The Northernmost point in the United States is Point Barrow, Alaska-The Easternmost point in the United States is West Quoddy Head, Maine -The Southernmost point in the United States is Ka Lae South Cape, Hawaii-The Westernmost point in the United States is Cape Wrangell, Alaska Attu Island-The high altitude Atacama Desert in Chile is said to be the driest desert on earthYou Got a Fact that GotFacts don't? >> Submit-a-Fact
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