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#14 Getting Struck By a Meteorite?
It has been calculated by someone with enough spare time that the chance for a human being of getting struck by a meteorite is once per every 9,300 years. Long story short-don't worry.
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The Thin Two Times the Equator Long Line
There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in a human body. When they are put end to end they can create two and a half circles around the planet Earth.
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Getting Struck By a Meteorite?
It has been calculated by someone with enough spare time that the chance for a human being of getting struck by a meteorite is once per every 9,300 years. Long story short-don't worry.
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Heaviest Thimbleful Ever
If you take a piece of rock from a neutron star that can perfectly fill a thimbleful you won't be able to lift it because its weight is over 100 million tons.
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Wind Bomb
Mother nature needs no money to blow things sky high. All she needs is a hurricane who according to the latest research results is equal to 8000 megaton bombs. How about that?
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Blood Suckers
Over 700 million people in the whole world are victims to the bloodsucking hookworms. There are many of those dangerous little fellows, potentially ready to spark off anemia, but you really need to hate and violate your body for the hookworms' damage to take effect.
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Need For Bicycle Speed
The pride of all cyclist should be Fred Rompelberg-the man who proved that great speeds are achievable on a bicycle as well. He manages to pull off 166 miles per hour. Those wheels must have had some badly heated time.
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Human Light
With technologies advancing light is thoroughly under our control. We are capable of producing a laser light one hundred times more powerful than that of the Sun.
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Autism Habit
For some reason 65 percent of all the people suffering from autism are all left handed. You can always admire people who write from right to left. Especially the ones faster than you.
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Father Christmas Trees
Finland knows best. And what better thing to know then how to raise good tall pines. The Finish pine tree has roots that can reach a length of over 30 miles.
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Salt Kingdom
There is so much salt in oceans that if it was all extracted and poured all over all the continents they would be covered with a blanket of salt tall 500 feet. Too spicy?
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Drunkard's Heaven
There is an interstellar gas called Sagittarius and it contains, pay attention, alcoholics, billion, billion, billion litters of alcohol. If you ever want to have a shot at space, well you can find all sorts of ways to do that, drunkard fellows.
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White Beasts
There is a reason why Santa Claus has a back up team of gigantic polar bears in case Rudolf and the other red-nose deers go on a strike. Polar bears can run at 25 miles/hour and they can jump 6 feet in the air. Snow White sure feeds them well.
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Bug Eaters
You wonder who is so gross to eat bugs? You are. Because the average person has been calculated to accidentally eat 430 bugs each year of his life while sleeping with an open mouth, and other cases, during the summer while jogging, etc. And we are not even counting when the Asians are doing it on purpose.
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When Roots Go Deep
A single rye plant can input its roots up to 400 miles in the earth. You can find entire cities in Eastern Europe that are shorter than that.
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Butterflies' Life
Butterflies taste with their feet if you can recall how a butterflies' feet look exactly and they taste by touching and this allows them to determine whether a leaf is edible.
