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38. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a
Red Giant.
39. Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They
may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts not all at once), but this is
rare. They never lie down.
40. A pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
41. Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.
42. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish
have 200.
43. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
44. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a
complete circuit of the body.
45. Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.
46. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire
US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
47. The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest
noise made by a living creature.
48. The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and
can be heard from 500 miles away.
49. A quarter of the worlds plants are threatened with extinction
by the year 2010.
50. Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
51. At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the
planet.
52. The largest galaxies contain a million, million stars.
53. The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
54. Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without
spread of gangrene or other infection.
55. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
56. The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250
miles long and 40 miles wide.
57. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.