1) A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.
2) There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean.
3) If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
4) The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
5) If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
6) More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
7) The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40.
8) A red blood cell can make a complete circuit of your body in 20 seconds.
9) The strongest creatures on Earth are gonorrhea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own body weight.
10) One in ten European babies is conceived in an IKEA bed. (Not much science in this one, but funny enough to know :))
11) The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life
12) There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
13) Each person sheds 40 lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
14) One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
15) Human saliva contains a painkiller called opiorphin that is six times more powerful than morphine.
16) Girls have more taste buds than boys.
17) When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
18) Gorillas and potatoes have two more chromosomes than humans do.
19) A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
20) Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
21) The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
22) A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
23) Octopuses have three hearts.
24) At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
25) The name of the first human being in the Norse mythology is Ask
26) The Queen is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth’s land surface
27) As it grows, sweet corn makes a squeaking noise like two balloons rubbing against each other.
28) Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
29) Biologically speaking, bugs are insects that “suck”.
