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There is enough DNA in an average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times.
It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in a lifetime.
If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side.
A medium-sized cumulus cloud weighs about the same as 80 elephants.
Gorillas and potatoes have two more chromosomes than humans do.
A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.
The strongest creatures on Earth are gonorrhea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own body weight.
The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40.
The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life.
If all the LEGO bricks ever manufactured were clipped on top of one another, they would make a tower ten times as high as the distance to the Moon.
There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.