AMAZING FACTS

Written on Sunday, August 01, 2004 by Rohan Koshy

Did you know that the average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil? Amazing fact! Now imagine an eraser that could match it !!!

Did you know the first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along

A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

Back in 1920, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males
(personal comment-YUCK!!!)
It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivilent amount of energy as 30 household light bulbs to complete an orbit.

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