Wednesday 16 January 2008

More things you don't care about...

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.

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

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.

The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."

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