Random Facts

-In the last 2.58 million years the polar ice caps have advanced and retreated 30 times, covering much of North America and Europe with ice up to two miles thick. The glaciers last began retreating approximately 12,500 years ago, just as homo sapiens began to populate the Earth. The cycle is due to repeat. In 10,000 years all evidence of civilization in North America, England and Europe will be obliterated by the ice.

-The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons

-Fire causes $15 billion in damage each year in the US

-The length of the first airplane flight was 120 feet. A 747 is 250 feet long.

-The first airplane flight was on December 17, 1903. Man walked on the moon 66 years later. There were people alive who saw both.

-60% of the world's geysers are in Yellowstone National Park.

-56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.

-1 G = 21 miles per hour, per second. If you could maintain 1 G, you would attain the speed of light within a year.

-Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper every year.

-A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

-Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.

-Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.

-Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day