What are some mind blowing facts

 

·         Vending machines kill more people every year than sharks do.

·         You exert more energy when you unfold a single piece of paper than we have collected in all the radio waves we have ever collected from outer space.

·         The state of Maine has more black bears than black people.

·         Your father, your father's father, your father's father's father, and so on; stretching all the way back in an unbroken chain to the first cell, each managed to find a mate and successfully reproduce.

·         80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn't survive WWII.

·         Nintendo existed at the same time as the Ottoman Empire.

·         Neutron stars are so dense that if you dropped a gummy bear from one meter away it would hit the surface in a microsecond with the force of 1,000 nuclear bombs.

·         You could walk from North Korea to Norway and only pass through one other country.

·         A 7 year old girl in South Africa is more likely to be raped than to receive an education.

·         Every two days human beings create as much information as we did from the dawn of time until 2003.

·         The US has 4% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's prison population.

·         You can sail from Canada to Canada in a straight line and never hit land, crossing through every time zone along the way that isn't already in Canada.

·         There are more potential unique shuffles for a single deck of cards than planets in the visible universe.

·         If you spend 3 seconds in front of every piece of art inside the Louvre Museum, you'd need five months to see everything.

·         There's enough space between the Earth and the moon to fit in all the rest of the planets in the solar system.

·         Samsung is responsible for 25% of South Korea's GDP.

·         Of all the species of mammals that are on planet Earth, 20% of them are types of bats.

·         More people have contracted cancers directly attributable to the clean-up at 9/11 ground zero than people who have contracted cancers remotely attributable to Chernobyl.

·         All the ants in the world weigh about the same as all the people in the world.

·         The typical cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds.