- The Earth experiences over 50,000 earthquakes a year.
- The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
- For every human there are 200 million insects.
- It takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth.
- Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime).
- Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney was awarded 35 Oscars.
- In 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names.
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