-Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.-Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
-If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
-The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed. (NOT 5-6 thousand years ago as some Creationists claim!)
-Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating. (I once had a girlfriend like that!)
-When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.-If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
-Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
-The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
-Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.-There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
-On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
-Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
-Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection. (I don't know if I really needed this information!!!)
-More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
-The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet so it's deeper down than Mt. Everest is high!Just so you know!
Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God-101 at www.God-101.com
