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 A BASIC living cell has the same number of working parts as a Boeing 777. Scientists tried to drill a hole to the centre of the Earth – but only made it 180 metres down. A museum boss in Oxford ordered the last stuffed dodo in the world to be thrown on to a bonfire in 1755 because it smelled. Every time a man thinks about sex, his hair grows. One in three teenagers carries deadly meningitis in their throats without knowing it. Your body sheds ten billion flakes of skin every day. Static fizz on your TV is cosmic radiation from the Big Bang. There are 100million asteroids in space which could hit the Earth at any time. Modern humans have been around for only 0.0001 per cent of the Earth’s history. Your heart pumps the equivalent of four Olympic-sized swimming pools of blood a year. If your pillow is six years old, a tenth of its weight is dead skin, mites and mite dung. The average human life is 650,000 hours. Geologist William Buckland wanted to prove all British animals were edible. He liked baked guinea pig, deep-fried mice and roast hedgehog but hated mole. Disabled inventor Thomas Midgley was strangled by the cords of a pulley system he had invented to help him get out of bed . It was only 60,000 years ago that people learned how to talk. Doctor Robert Broom buried patients’ bodies in his garden and later dug them up to study. Naturalist Charles Darwin was told not to pen his theory of evolution, On The Origin Of Species, because it was too boring. He was advised to write about pigeons instead. Crocodiles used to be three times the size they are now, dragonflies were as big as ravens and tortoises were the size of a small car. The skull of a two-million-year-old “southern African ape man” was used as a paperweight on a scientist’s desk until it was rediscovered years later. Only three per cent of the Earth’s water is fresh, with just 0.036 per cent in lakes, rivers and reservoirs. Up to 1,800 thunder storms are in progress around the globe at any given moment. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815 spread dust that caused a famine and a typhoid epidemic in Ireland killing 65,000 people. A giant squid weighs one tonne, has eyes the size of footballs, trails 18-metre tentacles and would fill a normal-sized swimming pool. It is believed that ten million frozen mammoth carcasses lie under northern Siberia. Light from the North Star is 680 years old. If all ice-caps melted, sea levels would rise by 60 metres – the height of a 20-storey building. In the 1800s, it took seven months for news from Africa to reach Britain. One kilogram of CFC gas in deodorant destroys 70,000kgs of the ozone layer. Humans wipe out about 600 types of animals, plants and insects every week. If every galaxy in the universe was reduced to the size of a frozen pea, there would be enough to fill the Albert Hall. The universe was created in the time it takes to make a sandwich. 100 years ago doctors didn’t know how babies were made. posted by Crossfade |
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 is it BRYSON's complete history of everything its just been released...i may purchase it tomorrow...i like this kind of stuff posted by the anomaly |
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 Crossfade: Every time a man thinks about sex, his hair grows. So That's why I need a haircut every week 
posted by Marl64 |
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Quote: is it BRYSON's complete history of everything It sure is and a mighty fine read it is too! 
posted by Crossfade |
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 Quote: Every time a man thinks about sex, his hair grows That's a statistical trick: Because everytime my cousin thinks about space shuttles my hair grows, too. posted by knn |
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 the most random stuff ever posted by Agent Zero |
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knn: That's a statistical trick: Because everytime my cousin thinks about space shuttles my hair grows, too. Aaargh! Will you all stop thinking stuff, my hair is getting out of control.
posted by Marl64 |
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 I wanna read that book, my hair is getting too long, HOW DO I STOP IT?  posted by hungarian kid |
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i got a hair cut not too long ago...what about bald people? posted by Agent Zero |
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..compensates and comes out their nose faster! posted by Crossfade |
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HA, we Hungarians just grow hair everywhere else but the head if we're bald... and if we're not. posted by hungarian kid |
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That is some crazy stuff!Men probibably really do think about sex a-lot!That's something to look up! posted by DestiniGirl90 |
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