Interesting facts and statistics

General Knowledge:

• Fact: Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
• Statistic: The average person walks the equivalent of 5 times around the equator in their lifetime.  
• Fact: It's impossible to hum while holding your nose closed.  
• Statistic: More people are killed by vending machines each year than by sharks.

History:

• Fact: The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.  
• Statistic: The Library of Congress in the US has over 170 million items.
• Fact: The shortest war in history was the Anglo-Zanzibar War in 1896, lasting only 38 minutes.  
• Statistic: The world's population has more than doubled since 1970.

Science:

• Fact: Octopuses have three hearts.  
• Statistic: There are more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
• Fact: A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.  
• Statistic: The human brain can store approximately 2.5 petabytes of information.

Nature:

• Fact: There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.  
• Statistic: The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth, with a heart so big a human could swim through its arteries.  
• Fact: A group of owls is called a parliament.  
• Statistic: Only about 5% of the ocean has been explored.  

Human Body:

• Fact: Your brain uses about 20% of your body's total energy.  
• Statistic: You shed about 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells every minute.  
• Fact: Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day.  
• Statistic: The average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools.  

Pop Culture:

• Fact: The "Friends" theme song was originally only 45 seconds long.
• Statistic: The most-watched TV episode in history was the "MAS*H" finale, with over 105 million viewers.
• Fact: The first video game character to appear in a movie was Mario in "Super Mario Bros." (1993).
• Statistic: As of 2023, "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee is the most-watched music video on YouTube, with over 8 billion views.

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By Jerry Ramonyai