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QUICK FACTS some food for thought

	Every Zebra's stripes are different.
	If we live to 100 years we will sleep 33 years of it.


The average adult human heart beat rate is 72 beats per minute.
A sperm whales’ heart can beat as slowly as 10 times per minute, an elephants’ 25 times per minute, while a canarys’ heart beats 1000 times in a minute.

In ten minutes a hurricane releases more energy than the entire world’s nuclear weapons combined.

The probability of having two consecutive triplet births is about 1 in 50 million.

Like fingerprints everyone's tongue print is different.
One year is actually a little more than 52 weeks; it’s 52.18 weeks. However, we can’t have 0.18 weeks so we save them up every 4 years, which makes 29 February (leap year).

	Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
	Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

The earths weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tonnes
Have you ever heard the statistic ‘one in five people are Chinese’? China has the highest population in the world. In 2000 it’s population reached 1.26 billion.

If you travel East and cross the (IDL) International Date Line, East becomes West and today becomes yesterday (e.g. Wednesday becomes Tuesday) and you have the same day twice. Reverse occurs- today becomes tomorrow lose a day.

	Look out! Our eyes always stay the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
	In 1889 Galton found that taller fathers have shorter sons and shorter fathers have taller sons.

Sleep on this... the average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

by Zeinab Youssef