Top 25 facts you probably don't know about

• The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes.
• Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect after Tanganyikan student Erasto Mpemba.
• The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.
• Only one person in two billion will live for more than 115 years of life.
• Dynamite contains peanuts as an ingredient.
• There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times
• The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
• About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
• Humans share 98.4% of our DNA with chimps and about 70% of our DNA with a slug.
• The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.
• A space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second to escape the earth's Gravitational pull. This is equivalent to going from Philadelphia to New York in about twenty seconds.
• If the normal one hundred thousand hairs on a head were woven into a rope, it could support a weight of more than twelve tons.
• The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles and still expanding
• Humans breathe in and out approximately one litre of air in ten seconds.
• In one day, adult lungs move about 10000 liters of air.
• The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
• When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.
• The average galaxy contains “only” 40 billion stars.
• 10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria.
• At the age of fifty, people will start to lose their dislike for foods that taste bitter.
• A full day on Mercury that is from sunrise to sunset, lasts about six months on Earth.
• The human heart weighs less than a pound.
• Each person sheds about 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
• 50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays.
• It only takes about 7lbs of pressure to rip your ear off.