Amazing Facts: December 2015

Friday, 25 December 2015

It snowed in the Sahara Desert in 1979.

We use 300 muscles just to keep our balance when we stand.

Women blink twice as much as men.

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

A human hair can hold 3 kg.

It takes 7 seconds for food to pass from mouth to stomach.

"Friendstalker" was one of the early names considered for Twitter.

Over 20,000 people die of Cancer every day.

Israel is so small, you can run through it from west to east in 2 hours and from top to bottom in 9 days.

Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood.

The world's largest gold bar weighs 250 kg (551 lb).

Every 40 seconds, someone commits suicide.

Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually.

About 153,000 people will die on your birthday.

Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.

Thousands of marine creatures die by mistakenly swallowing plastic bags that resemble jellyfish.

Recycling a single plastic bottle can conserve enough energy to light a 60W bulb for up to 6 hours.

95% of all data in the world is still stored on paper. Most of it is never looked at again