Thursday, April 16, 2009

9+9 Amazing Facts Using Numbers

  • In one year the average human heart circulates from 770,000 to 1.6 million gallons of blood through the body.
  • The average ejaculate contains as many as 787 million sperm.
  • The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
  • 123456787654321 is 11,111,111 multiplied by itself.
  • According to the film's animators, you'll see 6,469,952 black spots every time you watch 101 Dalmatians.
  • Barbie's measurements, if she were life size, would be 39-23-33.
  • The number 2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover.
  • A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.
  • The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to seven.
  • India has the most post offices of any country with 280,181.
  • In 1930, the heaviest a female flight attendant could be was 115 pounds. They also had to be unmarried nurses.
  • There is a way of writing 1 by using all ten single-digit numbers at once:148/296 + 35/70 = 1.
  • Of the 25 highest mountains on earth, 19 are in the Himalayas.
  • Lightning puts 10,000,000 tons of nitrogen into the earth each year.
  • It takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon.
  • Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
  • Elephants produce 50 pounds of manure every day.

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