Amazing-Facts
Some unbelievable and
interesting facts.
1. If you are struck by
lightning, your skin will
be heated to 28,000
degrees Centigrade,
hotter than the surface
of the Sun.
2. If you trace your
family tree back 25
generations, you will
have 33,554,432 direct
ancestors – assuming no
incest was involved.
3. The average distance
between the stars in the
sky is 20 million miles.
4. It would take a
modern spaceship
70,000 years to get to
the nearest star to earth.
5. An asteroid wiped out
every single dinosaur in
the world, but not a
single species of toad or
salamander was
affected. No one knows
why, nor why the
crocodiles and tortoises
survived.
6. If you dug a well to
the centre of the Earth,
and dropped a brick in
it, it would take 45
minutes to get to the
bottom – 4,000 miles
down.
7. Your body sheds 10
billion flakes of skin
every day.
8. The Earth weighs
6,500 million million
million tons.
9. Honey is the only
food consumed by
humans that doesn’t go
off.
10. The Hawaiian
alphabet has only 12
letters.
