The most dangerous animal on the planet is a mosquito.
At the top of the risk list from mosquitoes is malaria. Even after decades of battling against the mosquito carrier, an amazing 40% of the world's population, mostly those living in the world's poorest countries, is still at risk of malaria. The disease causes more than 300 million acute illnesses each year and over a million deaths annually, mainly children under five.
The flea can jump 350 times its body
length (over seven inches high and thirteen inches long). It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
The flea when jumping accelerates 50 times faster than a space shuttle. Without its outer shell it would get smashed by the velocity of the jump.
Dr. Michael Griffin is the current Administrator of NASA. He has seven degrees including Masters degrees in Aerospace Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, and Civil Engineering. He also has an MBA and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering!
As a result, his full salutation is Prof. Dr. Michael Griffin BSc,MSc,MEng,MBA,Ph.D!
The US was the 1st nation to put a man on
the moon.
The USSR had the following:
1st orbital spacecraft,
Sputnik
1st spacecraft to carry an animal (a dog Laika), Sputnik 2
1st spacecraft to reach another celestial body, Luna 2
1st spacecraft to photograph the far side of the moon, Luna
3
1st spacecraft to land safely on another planet, Venera 7
1st manned spacecraft, Vostok 1, which carried the ...
1st human into space (Yuri Gagarin)
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosnt mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the
olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed
it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 30 OR 31 days in a month...well no sometimes 28 days in a month -- why does it have to be so confusing!
Well in 1792, France (home of the metric system or "SI") established a much better system: 100 seconds in a minute. 100 minutes in an hour. 10 hours in a day. (These "seconds" were .864 of our "seconds" but that's not too important). 10 days in a week. 3 weeks in a month.
Just like the metric system ("1000mL=1L" instead of "2 cups in a pint, 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon"), this time system makes so much sense. However, just 13 years later, Napoleon took over and returned France to the Gregorian system to please the Pope.
The NASA rovers on Mars have lasted seven times as long as they were intended to.
NASA's robotic space explorers, the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, have survived for a full Martian year (687 Earth days) on the red planet!
When Spirit first landed on Jan. 3, 2004, scientists hoped that the rovers would last 90 sols, a Martian days which is just a few minutes longer than an Earth day.
Lego’s Danish founder Ole Kirk Christiansen named the famous bricks in 1934 by fusing two Danish words, “leg” and “godt” meaning “play well.”
Children across the world spend 5 billion hours every year playing with Lego bricks, available in 90 different colors, according to the company’s Web site.
Most Americans who file for bankruptcy once end up doing it a second time.
More than 1.5 million personal bankruptcies were filed this year (Illness and medical bills accounted for half of these). A sidenote -- more families with children will file for bankruptcy than divorce.
Hate snail mail spam? Advo, the nation's largest direct-mail marketer, sends about 27 billion pieces of mail annually and is the largest private customer of the Postal Service.
That's about 100 pieces of mail to every person in America!
The presidential elections of 1876 and 2000both ended with a deadlock, with Florida's electoral votes in dispute.
In both elections, partisan Florida Republicans gave the state's electoral votes to the Republic candidate, and the Democrats challenged the result. Both challenges were decided by a single vote cast by a Republican Supreme Court justice in favor of the Republicans.
In every year since 2000, stocks rated "sell" by Wall Street have outperformed stocks rated "buy" or "hold."
Over the past four years, stocks that the Street has been telling you to sell have risen 19% per year on average. Meanwhile, the "buys" and "holds" have risen just 7%.
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