Interesting Facts

• Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.
• Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
• The United States uses an estimated 10 million tons of salt each year to melt ice on the roads.
• For each minute of the day, 1 billion tons of rain falls on the Earth.
• Polar Bears are capable of jumping as high as 6 feet and can run as fast as 25mph.
• There are over 20 million observable meteors per day
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
• Comets are bodies of ice, rock and organic compounds that can be several miles in diameter.
• The human brain is composed of 75% water.
• A piece of a neutron star the size of a pin point would way 1 million tons.
• The risk of a falling meteorite striking a human occurs once every 9,300 years.