There are approximately 2000 thunderstorms that are active at the same time which results in 100 lightning flashes a second.
There are approximately 90 people that have been frozen after their death.
There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few metres.
There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.
There has only been 193,000 metric tonnes of gold discovered to date.
There is an automobile model called Stutz Bearcat.
Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers.
Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation.
Walter Hunt patented the safety pin in 1849. He later sold the patent rights for only $400.
When the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter’s atmosphere, it was traveling at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour. This is the fastest impact speed ever achieved by a man-made object.
27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.
31% of employees skip lunch entirely.
96% of candles that are purchased are by women.
The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
The total volume of mail that went through the Canadian postal system in 1950 was 1,362,310,155 items.
The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 480 hours held by Dennis Easterling, of Atlanta, Georgia.
The world’s 350+ billionaires have more assets than the combined assets of the bottom 45% of the world’s population.
Thirteen percent of the human population reside in deserts.
In eighteenth century England, women's wigs were sometimes 4 feet high. These remarkable headdresses were dusted with flour and decorated with stuffed birds, replicas of gardens, plates of fruit, or even model ships.
In eighteenth century English gambling dens, there was an empolyee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
In England, in the 1800's pants was considered a dirty word.
In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.
In 1976 Rodrigo's Guitar Concierto de Aranjuez' was No 1 in the UK for only three hours because of a computer error.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the US
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