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The odds against a person being struck by a meteorite, are ten trillion to one
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Driving at 75 miles per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.
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Driving 55mph instead of 65mph increases your car mileage by about 15%
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Airbags explode at 200mph
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If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would today not be alive
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One third of all cancers are sun related
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The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime
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The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36kg
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There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee
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It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon
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The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons
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The average human produces 25,00 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools
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Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but ten ounces is water
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A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds
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If you freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from the micro-organisms on your body
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If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, (including the uninhabitable areas) everyone would get roughly 100sqft
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The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year
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There are 336 dimples on a regulation golfball
In a century's time Islam had converted one third of the world
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If all the ozone in the atmosphere were compressed to a pressure corresponding to that at he earth's surface, layer would be only 3mm thick
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In 75% of Americans households, women manage the money and pay the bills
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The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours
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Only one person in two billion will live to be 166 or older
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The world record for Rainboot tossing is 54.60 metres
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Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday
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Right handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people do
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