Amazing Facts

1. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
2. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
3. Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
4. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
5. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
6. No word in the English language rhymes with”MONTH”.
7. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
8. “Go.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
9. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
10. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
11. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
12. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
13. The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
14. Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.
15. Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.
16. The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.
17. The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.