Interesting Facts of the Week

• Posted by Evert Chris Dimalanta February 8, 2014 - Filed in Other - ##science #interestingfacts  - 1,457 views

  1. In flat-heeled shoes, 50 percent of your weight falls on your heel. In high heels, only 10 percent does, which means that 90 percent falls on your toes. So, the higher the heel, the more problems.

  
  
  2. Today’s super computers can store one trillion bits of information. The human brain, however, can store 1,000 trillion bits of information.

   

  3. The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life.

   

  4. Every year, over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

   

  5. The diamond knife is the sharpest tool on Earth. It is sharp enough to cut a virus in half. Viruses are so tiny, 10 million can fit on the dot of this “i”.

   

  6. The biggest predator in the world – the great white shark – can hear low-frequency sounds, such as those of a struggling fish, from 1.6 kilometers away.

   

  7. Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.

   

  8. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

   

  9. Squirrels have the unique ability to see above, below, and behind them without moving their head.

   

  10. Women blink nearly twice as often as men.