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61/ The world's smallest winged
insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the
eye of a housefly.
62/ If the Sun were the size
of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball
and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
63/ It would take over an
hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest
part of the ocean.
64/ There are more living
organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans
on the surface of the earth.
65/ The grey whale migrates
12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
66/ Each rubber molecule is
made of 65,000 individual atoms.
67/ Around a million, billion
neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you
read this sentence.
68/...and now they are already
past the Moon.
69/ Quasars emit more energy
than 100 giant galaxies.
70/ Quasars are the most distant
objects in the Universe.
71/ The saturn V rocket which
carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty
747 jumbo jets.
72/ Koalas sleep an average
of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
73/ Light would take .13 seconds
to travel around the Earth.
74/ Males produce one thousand
sperm cells each second - 86 million each day.
75/ Neutron stars are so dense
that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on
Earth.
76/ One in every 2000 babies
is born with a tooth.
77/ Every hour the Universe
expands by a billion miles in all directions.
78/ Somewhere in the flicker
of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the
Big Bang.
79/ Even travelling at the
speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the
nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
80/ The temperature in Antarctica
plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.
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