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January 26, 2017

* FACTS 66 (SCIENCE)

Hi Friends!

1. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

2. Utopia is a large, smooth lying area of Mars.

3. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

4. The low frequency call of the humback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.

5. The call of the humback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

6. A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

7. At 15 inches the eyes of giant Squids are the largest on the planet.

8. The largest galaxies contain a million, million stars.

9. The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

10.More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

11. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

12. A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million hemoglobin molecules.

13. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

14. Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.

15. The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

16. It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.

17.There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the Earth.

18.  There are enough DNA in an average person's body to stretch from the Sun to Pluto and back 17 times.

19. At over 2000 kilometers long; The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.

20. The Average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in a lifetime.

21.An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

22. The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the countries to a depth of nearly 500 feet.

23. Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air.

24. Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their ancestor.

25. The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from 10-25 gallons in 24 hours.

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