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Can you guess how much of a person's life they spend blinking?


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    Antarctic glaciers could raise sea levels by up to 58 metres if they were to melt completely. (Fox News)

  • It takes approximately 1,800 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef, which is equivalent to 10 bathtubs full to create a quarter-pound hamburger. This includes water used for drinking, feeding and processing.

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    To prepare a quarter-pound hamburger, you need the equivalent of approximately 10 bathtubs of water. (Fox News)

  • Mount Everest grows by about 4 millimetres per year due to tectonic activity. Over the course of a human lifetime, this growth can be quite significant: about 25 centimetres in 60 years.

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    Mount Everest could grow 25 centimeters in the span of a human lifetime. (Fox News)

  • There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way: Although estimates vary, it is generally accepted that there are around 3 trillion trees on Earth, while it is estimated that there are around 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.

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    There are more trees than stars in the Milky Way. (Fox News)

  • To produce one pound of honey, a bee colony must fly approximately 55,000 miles and visit about 2 million flowers.

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    Bees must visit 2 million flowers to create one pound of honey. (Fox News)

  • The Great Wall of China is over 21,000 kilometres long. If laid out end to end, it would stretch over half the circumference of the Earth.

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    The length of the Great Wall of China is more than half the circumference of the Earth. (Fox News)

  • The world's population reached 1 billion in 1804. It took 123 years to reach 2 billion (in 1927) and only 12 years to go from 7 billion to 8 billion (2022).

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    While it took more than a century for the human population to grow from 1 billion to 2 billion people, it took just over a decade for seven billion to grow to eight billion. (Fox News)

  • Due to thermal expansion, the height of the Eiffel Tower can vary by up to 15 centimetres (6 inches) depending on the temperature. When it is hot, the iron structure expands and when it is cold, it contracts.

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    The Eiffel Tower can stretch about 15 centimeters more depending on the temperature. (Fox News)

  • A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus: Venus rotates very slowly on its axis, taking about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation. However, its orbit around the Sun only takes about 225 Earth days, making a day (rotation) longer than a year (orbit).

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    On Venus, surprisingly, a day lasts longer than a year. (Fox News)

  • Every day, around 2.5 trillion bytes of data are created worldwide – the equivalent of 250,000 Libraries of Congress.

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    Every day, data equivalent to a quarter of a million Libraries of Congress are created. (Fox News)

  • If all the blood vessels in the human body were laid out side by side, they would measure approximately 60,000 miles, enough to circle the Earth more than twice.

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    The total length of a human's blood vessels could circle the Earth at least twice. (Fox News)

  • Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute. If you live to be 80, you will have spent about 5 years of your life with your eyes closed due to blinking.

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    People would spend five years of their lives with their eyes closed just by blinking. (Fox News)

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