The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life.

 

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

 

At over 2000 kilometers long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.

 

A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.

 

The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred Rompelberg.

 

We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine.

 

Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.

 

There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body - laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times.

 

The combined length of the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles.

 

The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.

 

Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air.

 

Butterflies taste with their hind feet and their taste sensation works on touch - this allows them to determine whether a leaf is edible.

 

There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).

 

The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

 

The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years.

 

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

 

The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.

 

The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a walnut.

 

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

 

The Atlantic Giant Squid's eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide.

 

The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).

 

Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping. Wakey wakey!

 

The starfish species, Porcellanaster ivanovi, has been found to live in water as deep as 24,881 feet (7,584 meters).

 

The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.

 

The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) deep and occurs in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. At that depth the pressure is 18,000 pounds (9172 kilograms) per square inch.

 

The largest cave in the world (the Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia) is 2,300 feet (701 meters) long, 980 feet (299 meters) wide, and more than 230 feet (70 meters) high.

 

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

 

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

 

The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.

 

The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.

 

The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.

 

There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.

 

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

 

Super Glue was invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart.

 

No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

 

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

 

Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man.

 

Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two.

 

The Earth's equatorial circumference (40,075 km) is greater than its polar circumference (40,008 km).

 

At 1,637m deep, Lake Baikal in Russia is the deepest lake in the world.

 

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

 

The Earth's average velocity orbiting the sun is 107,220 km per hour.

 

There is enough fuel in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive an average car four times around the world.

 

The moon is 27% the size of the Earth.

 

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

 

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

 

A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of fuel in its take-off climb.

 

The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.

 

Since 1959, more than 6,000 pieces of 'space junk' (abandoned rocket and satellite parts) have fallen out of orbit - many of these have hit the earth's surface.

 

It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.

 

Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.

 

A bolt of lightning is about 54,000°F (30,000°C); six times hotter than the Sun.

 

The average distance between the Earth & the Moon is 238,857 miles (384,392 km).

 

The Earth weighs 6.6 sextillion tons, or 5.97 x 1024 kg.

 

The center of the Sun is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million °C).

 

Sunlight takes about 8 minutes & 20 seconds to reach the Earth at 186,282 miles/sec (299,792 Km/sec).

 

The human brain is 80% water.

 

Starfish don't have brains.

 

The highest temperature on Earth was 136°F (58°C) in Libya in 1922.

 

The lowest temperature on Earth was -128.6°F (-89.6°C) in Antarctica in 1983.

 

The average ocean floor is 12,000 feet.

 

House flies have a lifespan of two weeks.

 

Chimps are the only animals (apart from humans) that can recognize themselves in a mirror.

 

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

 

An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.

 

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

 

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

 

Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards.

 

Armadillos can walk underwater.

 

There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.

 

Certain frogs can survive the experience of being frozen.

 

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

 

Every minute, 30-40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body.

 

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

 

The human head is a quarter of our total length at birth, but only an eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.

 

Most people blink about 17,000 times a day.

 

The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.

 

Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

 

Ants do not sleep.

 

Giraffes are unable to cough.

 

Cheetah's can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds.

 

Lobsters have blue blood.

 

Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.

 

A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.

 

The average human produces a quart of saliva a day -- about 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.

 

Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

 

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.

 

Alkali metals such as sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium and francium are extremely reactive elements, just putting them in water can result in an explosion! They are carefully stored in oil to prevent this happening.

 

An Astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space. The cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity.

 

Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.

 

The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.

 

It is thought that the word 'chemistry' comes from an Egyptian word meaning 'earth'.

 

At room temperature, mercury is the only metal that is in liquid form.

 

Things invisible to the human eye can often be seen under UV light, which comes in handy for both scientists and detectives.

 

Humans breathe out carbon dioxide (CO2) while plants breathe it in. Plants use the carbon dioxide to make food from sunlight (photosynthesis).

 

Chemical reactions occur all the time, including through everyday activities such as cooking. Try adding an acid such as vinegar to a base such as baking soda and see what happens!

 

Water expands as it drops in temperature and by the time it is frozen it takes up about 9% more space.

 

Helium is lighter than the air around us so it floats, that's why it is perfect for the balloons you get at parties.

 

When you crack a whip, it makes a loud noise because the tip is actually moving faster than the speed of sound!

 

Some types of bamboo can grow nearly a meter a day!

 

Rather than putting on weight from eating celery you actually lose it, you burn more calories from the chewing than you put on from the food itself.