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Mind Blowing Facts:

  1. A flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. That is the equivalent of a human jumping the Empire State Building.
  2. There are 5 temples in Kyoto, Japan that have blood stained ceilings. The ceilings are made from the floorboards of a castle where warriors killed themselves after a long hold-off against an army. To this day, you can still see the outlines and footprints.
  3. There is a snake, called the boomslang, whose venom causes you to bleed out from every orifice on your body. You may even turn blue from internal bleeding, and it can take up to 5 days to die from the bleeding.
  4. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
  5. Saturn’s density is low enough that the planet would float in water.
  6. 68% of the universe is dark energy, and 27% is dark matter; both are invisible, even with our powerful telescopes. This means we have only seen 5% of the universe from earth.
  7. The founders of Google were willing to sell Google for $1 million to Excite in 1999, but Excite turned them down. Google is now worth $527 Billion.
  8. In the past 20 years, scientists have found over 1,000 planets outside of our solar system.
  9. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
  10. If a pregnant woman has organ damage, the baby in her womb sends stem cells to help repair the organ.
  11. If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it would take 27 days to become a millionaire.
  12. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  13. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
    If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you’ll feel thirsty.
    If it’s reduced by 10%, you’ll die.
  14. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
  15. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

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