|
- About
one third of American adults are at least 20 percent
above their recommended weight
- One
third of 95 developing countries have a waiting period of
six years or more for a telephone connection, compared
with less than a moth in developed countries
- The
average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva
droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets Per word
- The
average smell weighs 760 nanograms report Japanese
researchers The researchers weighed odours by dissolving
them in fat and using an ultra sensitive quartz crystal
Microbalance SOURCE:"Bizarre Moments in
science" by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
- One
third of black men in the US between 20 and 29 years old
were in prison, on parole or on probation. The number
increased from one fourth five years ago - The Key, April
1996
- One
sixth of all Americans am estimated 43 million people
move each year. (US Census Bureau)
- The
Earth experiences 50,000 Earth quakes each year
- Skin
temperature does not go much above 95of even on the
hottest days
- 314
Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994
- Sex
burns 360 calories per hour
- The
average human will wlk the distance of 160 billion
millimetres in his/hers lifetime
- Annual
growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%
- Experts
at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every
18 months for at least 10 years
- The
Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.
- The
odds against a person being struck by a meteorite, are
ten trillion to one
- Driving
at 75 miles per hour, it would take 258 days to drive
around one of Saturn's rings.
- Driving
55mph instead of 65mph increases your car mileage by
about 15%
- Airbags
explode at 200mph
- 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
- One
third of all cancers are sun related
- The
average person flexes the joints in their finger 24
million times during a lifetime
- The
largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36kg
- There
are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee
- It
would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon
- The
average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons
|
|
