Facts can be Fun

1) Number of atoms in 1 lb. of iron = 4,891,500,000,000,000,000,000,000

2) The number of possible ways of playing just 4 moves on each side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000

3) In the next minute 100 people will die and 240 people will be born . this means the word population increases by 140 people per minute .

4) the human body has 60,000 miles of blood vessels . it has 60 trillion cells of which each cell has about 10,000 times as many molecules as the stars in the milky way . it has 61 lb. of skin . Each square inch of skin has 625 sweat glands , 19 ft blood vessels and 19,000 sensory cells .

5) like human fingerprint , no two snow flakes are identical .

6) Rain contains vitamin B12

7) the largest hailstone to fall on earth was 17.5 ins in circumference and 1.67 lbs in weight .

8) Lightning strikes earth 100 times every second from 1,800 thunderstorms in progress at any given moment .

9) Popcorn was found in the graves of pre - columbian Indians .

10) to make 1 lb of honey , bees must collect nectar from 2,000,000 flowers .

11) in his early days , Picasso kept warm by burning some of his own paintings .

12) Van Gogh learnt to draw when he was 27 and sold only one painting in his life .