"For women giving birth to twins, the longest recorded time between the first twin being born and the second is 90 days."
"Woody Harrelson’s father was a mob hitman who killed a federal judge and was locked up in ADX Supermax."
"Paint on a plane can add 600 – 1200 pounds to the weight of the aircraft."
"There are more castles in Germany than there are McDonalds in America."
"Asbestos was only banned in the UK in 1999. The unbelievable part is – asbestos was known to be dangerous as far back as the ancient Egypt. About 2500/3000 BCIt only took us 4500/5000 years to ban it."
"Tampa, Florida has never reached 100 degrees."
"No one born after 1935 has set foot on the moon."
"There are 7 US States that have laws saying atheists can’t hold office."
"Clouds weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds"
"The Beatles were only a band for 10 years, their recording discography is only 7 years between their first and their last albums.
They had two distinctly different eras, the mop top years and the acid years. Yet they were only around for 10 years."
"Of the approximately 69 trillion cells that make up a human body, about 39 trillion of those cells are not human (bacteria, fungi, viruses.)"
"The longest manned, refueled flight in history was 64 days long. The aircraft used was a Cessna 172"
"Dragonflies experience up to 9Gs when cornering, they are the most efficient predator catching up to 95% of the prey they go after, they breath through their anus and most varieties (not sure if that’s the correct word) can’t walk"
"Giraffes and humans have the same number of neck-bones"
"London (UK) is technically a forest – the largest ‘urban forest’ in the world, and has almost as many trees as people.
(‘Forest’ by a particular definition as used by the United Nations and the Forestry Comission is ‘anywhere that is more than 20% trees’. London is 21%.)"
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It should be noted, however, that all true dragonflies are unable to walk, only perch. Damselflies can walk, but not very well.
Scale of space: Can you fit all the planets between the Earth ...
The average Earth-Moon distance is 384,400, and the total of the planets' average diameters is 380,016. That difference is 4,384 km, very close to their figure. But that doesn't include subtracting the radii of the Earth and Moon! When you do that (getting 376,000 km or so, remember) the planets don't fit.