1. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.2. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.
3. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to earth.
4. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.
5. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day
6. Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second.
7.The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language.
8. Hummingbirds are the only creatures that can fly backwards.
9. The lighter was invented before the match.
10.When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, only six phones were sold in the first month.
11. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for $7.5 million.
12. In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.
13. In a study by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest colour to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow.
14. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.
15. All babies are colour-blind when they are born.
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