- There are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person.
- It takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing.
- There is a 50% chance that in a group of 23 people, two will share the same birthday. In a group of 367 people, it is a 100% chance. But only 70 people are required for a 99.9% chance.
- There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year.
- There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
- The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
- Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.
- The odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1.
- Scotland has the most redheads.
- The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.
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