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Lightning strikes 100 times every second.
While this statistic refers to global lightning strikes, it only counts lightning that contacts the ground! During any given minute, there are more than a thousand thunderstorms around the Earth causing more than 6,000 flashes of lightning. Most of it goes from cloud-to-cloud. In Canada, on average, 7 people will die and 60 more will be injured every year from lightning. Men are struck by lightning 4 times more often than women – Why do you suppose that is?
Hydrofluoric acid dissolves glass.
Hydrofluoric acid is a highly toxic and corrosive solution of hydrogen fluoride in water. It dissolves glass by reacting with Silicon Oxide, which is the main ingredient in glass. (In fact, it will dissolve almost anything Oxide, so it’s good for purifying metals and the silicon used in semiconductors). It’s stored in polyethylene or Teflon containers, which don’t contain any oxides. Hydrofluoric acid is really nasty stuff, which can zip through your skin without damage and then destroy the tissues and organs underneath by reacting with calcium and magnesium ions in your body. Unlike more familiar acids, which will burn your skin, hydrofluoric acid will also poison you if you spill it on yourself.
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- You grow 121 feet of hair every day.
- Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9 m.
- You get taller in space.
- You weigh less on the way down.
- Japan gets 1500 earthquakes a year.
- BC gets 1000 earthquakes a year.
- A beaver can cut down 200 trees a year.
- You can walk on water.
- You fart a balloon's worth of gas a day. You fart 14 times a day.
- Your brain is mostly water.
- Vanilla is the most erotic scent to older men.
- It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make a single tablespoon of honey.
- A cockroach can live for nine days without its head.
- The wingspan of the Indonesian fruitbat equals the height of film star Sylvester Stallone.
- Tigers will use a litter box.
- Your body contains enough carbon to fill 9000 pencils.
- Sharks can live to be 100.
- Humans are allergic to mosquito spit.
- Termites prefer vibrating wood.
- You see better when you are scared.
- Daredevils are born loving fear.
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