| Less than 2% of the water on earth is fresh. |
| "If all the vessels in a person's body were laid end to end, they would reach more than 60,000 miles, almost enough to go around the world two and a half times. Science 6 for Christian Schools by Dawn L. Watkins |
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| It is estimated that there are over 1,000,000,000,000,000 connections in the brain; more connections than there are stars in the universe. www.brainplace.com |
| The brain is made up of millions of nerve cells called neurons...about 100 billion! To get an idea of how many 100 billion is, you can think of this; assume that you were going to count all 100 billion cells at a rate of 1 cell per second. It would take you about 3,171 years! |
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| A car traveling at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour would tke longer than 48 million years to reach the nearest star (other than our Sun). This is about 685,000 average human lifetimes. www.absolutetrivia.com |
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| A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons. www.absolutetrivia.com |
| About 27 tons of dust rains down on the earth each day from space, making a total of almost 10,000 tons each year. www.absolutetrivia.com |
| An area of the Sun's surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of 1,500,000 candles. www.absolutetrivia.com |