INTERESTING VERIFIABLE TRIVIAL FACTS

#1The speed of light is 186,282 miles per second.
#2It takes sunlight an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth.
#3October 31, 2011 was declared “The Day of Seven Billion,” based on United Nations projections.
#410 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this moment.
#5The Earth spins at 1,000 mph.
#6The GeoNet project locates between 50 and 80 earthquakes each day, or about 20,000 a year.
#7When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, the blasts were so loud they could be heard as far as 2,800 miles away.
#8The largest ever hailstone weighed nearly 2 pounds and fell in South Dakota.
#9Every second, around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
#10Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
#11In February 2010, an Iceberg the size of Luxembourg broke free from a glacier in Antarctica.
#12If you could drive your car straight up, you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
#13Tapeworms can measure up to 55 feet long.
#14Satellite observations reveal that the amount of spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has decreased over the past five decades.
#15The Earth solidified approximately 4.54 billion years ago.
#16The dinosaurs became extinct before the Alps were formed, about 65 million years ago.
#17Female black widow spiders sometimes kill and eat their counterparts, after mating.
#18Both the extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice has declined rapidly over the last several decades.
#19When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
#20To create a scale model of our universe, where the Earth is the size of a marble, you will need 7 miles of mostly empty space and a 60-inch sun.
#21The Australian Kakadu plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
#22Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
#23At the summit of Everest, there is only a third of the oxygen in the air at sea level.
#24Scientists have also been able to uphold the Big Bang theory by measuring the relative amounts of different elements in the universe.
#25In 1869, Friedrich Mieschler was the first to identify DNA as a distinct molecule.
#26The structure of the DNA-helix was determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
#27The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
#29Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
#30Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
#31Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize in physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
#32The world's tallest living tree is a 379.7 feet tall coast redwood.
#33Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.
#34The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright Brothers' first powered flight.
#35An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 860 volts.
#37Wine found in Armenia is considered to be at least 6100 years old.
#38The Ebola virus kills up to 90% of the people infected.
#39In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
#40Giraffes in the Serengeti rarely sleep for longer than five minutes at a stretch.
#42Without its lining of mucus, your stomach would digest itself.
#43Humans have 46 chromosomes, while peas have just 14.
#44There are close to 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human.
#45An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
#47On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
#48The sperm whale produces the loudest noise made by a living creature, with clicks measured at 230 dB.
#5021 percent of the world’s plants are at risk of extinction.
#51Humans shed about 1.5 pounds of skin each year.
#52Global sea level rose about 6.7 inches in the last century. The rate in the last decade, however, is nearly double that of the last century.
#53At 10 or more inches, the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
#55The observable universe contains about 200 billion galaxies.
#56Researchers say viral disease—particularly herpes—might have a role in the worldwide decline of coral.
#57A person’s mere presence in a room can add 37 million bacteria to the air every hour.
#58The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
#59Raindrops fall at speeds up to 20 mph.
#62Deafness, linked to a gene also involved in their distinctive coloration, is common in Dalmatians.
#65It would take over an hour for a dense object to sink from the surface to the deepest part of the ocean.
#71Quasars are among the most distant objects in the Universe.
#73According to NASA, neutron stars are so dense that a hypothetical teaspoonful would weigh over 20 billion tons on Earth.
#74One in every 2000-3000 babies is born with a tooth.
#75Every hour the Universe expands by billions of miles.
#72The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -135 °F.
#70At over 133,000 square miles, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest living thing on Earth.
#69The driest place in the world is McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.
#68Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world — including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska, and Africa.
#67The deepest part of any ocean in the world has a depth of 35,797 feet.
#66The largest verified meteorite crater in the world is Vredefort crater, in South Africa.
#64The largest desert in the world is 5,500,000 square miles, in Antartica.
#63The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
#61The short-nosed bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12.5 days.
#60The mortality rate of a Black Mamba snake bite is nearly 100%.
#54In the 14th century, the Black Death killed some 50,000,000 people, or 60 percent of Europe's entire population.
#4988% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
#41The number of record high-temperature events in the United States has been increasing, since 1950.
#36Microbial life has been found that can survive nuclear radiation.
#28Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.