Amazing Facts!! (and questions)

[Mr. Hendrick]

TASK: Add one amazing fact and one question arising from that fact. 

Example: 

FACT: "The entire internet weighs about the same as one large strawberry."

QUESTION: If that is what the internet weighs after 15 years, what will it weigh in 100 years, and how will we be able to cope with all the information?

[Tom Probert]

In a year the average American kid eats around 46 slices of pizza

How many slices of pizza does the whole of the US eat collectively per year? And how will it compare to other countries?

[Lewis Symonds]

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.

How many copper coins would it take to fill the well?

[Lewis Symonds]

The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime.

What do they do once they are in us?

[Lewis Symonds]

If every person in China stood on a chair and jumped off at the same time...it would knock the earth off its axis!

[Michael Calvey]

There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times

How long would it take to lay them out like that?

[listd]

We can udnretsnad any msseed up stnecene as lnog as the lsat and frsit lteets of wdros are in crrcoet plaecs

What if we look at it closely?

[Michael Calvey]

The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet

If you layed one grain on top of another could it reach the moon

[novisc]

1. Chainsaws were originally created to help deliver babies.

2. A man in the UK changed his name to Emperor Spiderman Gandalf Wolverine Skywalker Optimus Prime.

3. Most lip balms are made with salicylic acid crystals which cause your lips to peel, so you use more lip balm.

4. Your mind spends 70% of its time replaying memories and creating scenarios.

5. There is a hug me coca-cola machine in Singapore which gives you a free can of cola each time you hug it.

6. Cows have best friends, and get stressed when they are separated

7. Emotional pains last up to 12 minutes, after that, the pain is self-inflicted.

8. Everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analysed, and stored.

9. in Terminator 2 Schwarzenegger was payed $ 15 million for speaking 700 words, so, "Hasta la vista baby" costs $ 85,716.

10. A Swedish couple named their child "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116" pronounced "Albin"

Bonus:

* An American threw a rat into a pile of burning leaves, it ran into his house, still ablaze, and burnt his house down.

[Cotters]

The Chinese smoke around 2.2 trillion cigarettes a year, of which 400billion are fake, containing more than 80% more nicotine.

How many cigarettes are produced in a year?