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Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms. There are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person. Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day. The drinking straw was invented in 1886. The average person spends two weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights. Halley's comet passes the Earth every 76 years (the next time it will return will be 2062). The odds of being struck by lightning are one in 15,300 in your lifetime. When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit). When 2 zebras stand side by side they usually face each other in opposite directions to keep an eye out for predators. A baby fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks. reload more facts