Light takes 8 minutes and 17 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth's surface.
On October 12, 1999, it was declared "the day of the six billion people," according to United Nations forecasts. And on October 31, 2011 was the day of the seven billion people. The 8,000 million are expected by 2027
Earth rotates at a speed of 1 609 km / h, but travels through space at an incredible speed of 107 826 km / h. They have recently determined the speed of the sun at 864,000 km / h
When the volcano of Krakatoa erupted in 1883, the force it unleashed was so colossal that it could be heard in Australia, more than 4 800 km away.
The largest hailstone weighed 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
1 thousand people die each year from lightning. At any moment of the day, almost two thousand rays fall on Earth because of thunderstorms. The rays move at a third of the speed of light. Roy Sullivan American Ranger and called the human Pararayos, was struck by lightning on 7 different occasions and survived all of them. Has the Guinness record
In October 1999, an iceberg the size of London broke off the Antarctic ice shelf. In addition, an iceberg only shows approximately 10% of its body
The Australian Kakadu plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
Astronauts can not belch because weightlessness does not allow the separation of liquid and gas in their stomachs.
The first synthetic human chromosome was created in 1997 by American scientists.
The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo. The telescope in 1609.
Alfred Nobel invented the dynamite in 1886. With the money of this the Nobel prizes are paid.
The largest tree of all time was an Australian Eucalyptus Regnans in the Tasmanian forest interior. In 1872 it registered a
height of 132 m. It is higher than Hyperion the famous Sequoia Sempervirens of 116 m of California
Christie Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967. The operation, carried out by a team of twenty surgeons under Barnard, lasted six hours. Upon waking, Washkansky stated that he felt much better with the new heart. Doctor and patient were catapulted into fame, but eighteen days later, on the morning of December 21, the patient died of pneumonia.
The size of a Boeing 747 is higher than the length of the first flight of the Wright brothers. Its wingspan is 68.5 meters and the first flight was 37 m.
An electric eel can produce a discharge of more than 600 volts.
The first wine producers lived in Egypt around the year 2300 BC. Deposits in the Zagros mountains in Iran have shown that wine was already made in 8,000 bc.
Giraffes usually sleep for 20 minutes a day. They can sleep up to 2 hours (sometimes, not once), but exceptionally. They never go to bed. Giraffes can clean their ears with their tongue, which measures half a meter.
Without his layer of mucus, the stomach would digest itself.
With 38 cm, the eyes of the giant squid are the largest on the planet.
More germs are transmitted by hand than kissing.
The maximum speed at which a drop of rain can fall is 28 km / h.
The smallest winged insect in the world, the parasitic wasp of Tanzania, is smaller than the eye of a common fly.
A heavy object would take about an hour to sink about 10 km in the deepest part of the ocean.
The Saturn V rocket that carried the man to the moon developed an energy equivalent to 50 Jumbo 747 aircraft.
The koala sleeps 22 hours a day on average, two hours more than the lazy.
Even traveling at the speed of light would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
The temperature in the Antarctic can drop to -35 ° C.
With more than 2 000 km in length, the great coral reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
The world's largest desert, the Sahara, has more than 9 065 000 km2.
The largest dinosaur ever discovered was the Seismosaurus, which was more than 30m high and weighed more than 80 tons.
The percentage of mortality from the bite of the black mamba snake is 95%
The sense of smell of a dog is a thousand times more sensitive than that of humans.
The current manned rockets would take 70,000 years to reach the nearest stars.
Lightnings can be as long as 30 miles (48 km) long, with a thickness of less than one inch (2.54 cm) and reaching a
temperature higher than that of the sun's surface.
The most dangerous means of transport is the bicycle. And the safest form of transportation is the elevator.
Since the first fatal accident of an automobile (more than 100 years ago) to date, 25 million people have died.
The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and has the dimensions of a football field.
Each domestic cow emits approximately 150 kg of methane per year.
Hummingbirds consume energy equivalent to half of their body weight in food per day.
The highest speed recorded by a train was 574.7 km / h, achieved by the French TGV.
The highest speed reached by a bicycle is 166.94 miles per hour (268.6 km / h), achieved by Fred Rompelburg.
Camels resist 17 days without drinking in extreme heat.
The 10 highest mountains in the world are found in the Himalayas.
An adult venomous frog of the Colombian species "Golden Dart" possesses so many toxins as to kill 1,000 humans. A list of the most poisonous animals is here
Earthworms have five pairs of hearts, at the front of their bodies.
A human heart beats 100,000 times a day, throughout its life, a human pumped as much blood as to fill 100 pools. Each heart pumps each beat 1/15 pint (0.43 liters) of blood.
The talipot palm takes 100 years to bloom, and then it dies.
The call of the humpback whale produces a sound higher than that of the Concorde and can be heard 926 km away.
About a billion trillion neutrinos of the Sun will have pierced your body as you read this phrase.
On November 12, 2014, the human being on the Rosetta mission manages to land a 110 kg probe (Philae) on a comet that is more than 180 million km and moves at 55,000 km / h after a journey of More than 12 years and a half
In April 2016 the aerospace company Space X manages to land a rocket (Falcon 9) vertically on a floating platform
