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Water – Water Everywhere, But Not a Drop To Spare!

Some 70% of the world’s surface is covered by water but out of 1.4 billion square km of it – 97.5% is salt water and only 2.5% is fresh. If we could squeeze all the world’s water into a five-liter canister, fresh water would not fill in even a teaspoon.

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Some Facts!

  • When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
  • The maximum speed that raindrops can fall at is around 18mph, depending on their size.
  • If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.
  • 12 Astronauts have walked on the moon, between them bringing back 382 kilograms of rocks, pebbles, sand and dust.
  • Whales talk to each other by making a loud clicking noise. The sound waves travel extremely well underwater and they can hear each other from 100 miles away.
  • A TV screen shows 24 pictures a second. Because a fly sees 200 images a second, it would see TV as still pictures with darkness in between.
  • Cats can see clearly in one-sixth the amount of light we humans would need. This is due to a special layer of cells at the back of their retinas, which acts like a mirror, reflecting light back to the retina’s cells.
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    That is cold – Coldest Place on Earth!

    The coldest temperature officially recognized on Earth was recorded in Vostok, Antarctica at a -89.2 degrees Celsius.

    They say it has been colder but never official. Now to make you feel really cold this is the warmest temperature ever recorded at the same site.

    The warmest recorded temperature at Vostok was -19 degrees Celsius.

    That is a heat wave for Vostok!

    Kyle

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    Trillion and Trillion and Trillion – Oh who cares!

    That little dot at the bottom of the picture is a car.

    A million seconds is around 11 days.

    A billion seconds is around 32 years.

    And a trillion therefore is around 32,000 years.

    Now put that in dollars…

    The USA National Debt is going to be 13 trillion dollars real soon.

    32,000 years X 13 = 416,000 years to pay of the debt if you paid 1 dollar a second and accrued no more debt.

    This is a rough estimate and is off several billion dollars but give or take a few thousand years who cares!

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