| Here are some bits of trivia guaranteed to stop the conversation at any dinner party!
- Up to 1,800 thunderstorms are occuring in the world at any moment.
- If you are struck by lightening your skin will heat up to 28,000ºC.
- A just-bathed adult human is covered with about 1 Trillion bacteria, most of which are harmless. That's about half-a million per square inch of skin.
- Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin daily - and presumably, some of the bacteria goes as well!
- The average human life is 650,000 hours.
- According to Einstein, a small fairy-cake contains enough energy to level a small city.
- In 1751, just 70 years after the death of the last Dodo, the director of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum tossed the last stuffed Dodo on to the bonfire gbecause it had become musty. Rescued by a passer-by only the head and part of a limb survived.
- the heart pumps the equivilant of four swimmimng pool's worth of blood every year.
- All humans are 99.9% genetically identical.
- Nitreous oxide (laughing gas), was the drug of choice among wealthy socialites of the 1800's.
- Sir Issac Newton, while experimenting with how lenses distorted light, shooved a knitting needle into his eye and nearly blinded himself.
- The deepest hole ever dug was in Russia. It was an 8 mile deep scientific bore-hole. Were you able to dig to the centre of the earth, it would take 45 minutes for a brick to fall from top to bottom.
- the earth weighs 6,500 million tons.
- No living specimin of the giant squid has ever been caught, yet we know one would fill an average swimming pool and weighs a tonne.
- The sea has enough salt in it to cover all the dry land to a depth of 150 metres.
- The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
- A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 mph), whereas a human can only manage, at best, 30 kilometres per hour (18 mph).
- There are no fish of any sort in the Dead Sea.
- The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. It's heart is the size of a small car.
- the Chinese made the first wheelbarrow.
- The Hummingbird is smallest bird in the world . It only weighs 1oz.
- Bread is the most common food eaten by humans.
- The mosquito is responsible for the most human deaths worldwide.
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