Phee Phacts

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Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs

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10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

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If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

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Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

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Over two-thirds of people admit to urinating while in public swimming pools.

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Micro organisms that have been found frozen in perma-frost for three million years have successfully been brought back to life.

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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

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The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8 - 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.

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The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.

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When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

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If you could drive to the sun -- at 55 miles per hour -- it would take about 193 years

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Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.

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Armadillos can walk underwater.

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15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.

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There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

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Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.

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A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.

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A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.

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For each minute of the day, 1 billion tons of rain falls on the Earth.

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A piece of a neutron star the size of a pin point would way 1 million tons.

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The nearest known black hole is 1,600 light years (10 quadrillion miles/16 quadrillion kilometers) away.

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Excavations from Egyptian tombs dating to 5,000 BC show that the ancient Egyptian kids played with toy hedgehogs

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The seven wonders of the world.

1) The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which were built on the banks of the Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II.

2) The gigantic gold statue of Zeus was built by the sculptor Pheidias at Olympia.

3) The temple of Artemis was erected in the Asia Minor city of Ephesus in honour of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature.

4) The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was a huge tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria.

5) The Colossus of Rhodes was a massive statue erected by the Greeks in honour of Helios the sun-god.

6) The Lighthouse of Alexandria was built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos.

7.) The Great Pyramid of Giza was built near the ancient city of Memphis for Pharaoh Khufu in the period of the Fourth Dynasty, between 2613 and 2494BC. The Greeks refered to it as the Pyramid of Cheops. A true wonder, it is immense: according to Mysteries of the Unknown, it covers a ground area of 13.1 acres (32,4 hectares), composed of some 2.3 million limestone blocks average two-and-a-half tonnes each, enough stone to build a wall of foot-square cubes two-thirds around the globe at the equator, a distance of 16,600 miles (26 500km).