Facts Of The Day

June 21, 2007
Fact #26:
Scientists think the Earth's core is hotter than the surface of the Sun.

June 22, 2007
Fact #27:
Take a deep breath: If air were liquid, it would form a layer over the Earth 33 feet deep.

June 23, 2007
Fact #28:
Wind blowing against a mountain range can actually speed up or slow down the Earth's rotation.

June 24, 2007
Fact #29:
California's San Andreas fault is slipping about two inches a year, causing Los Angeles to move closer to San Francisco. At this rate, L.A. will be a San Francisco suburb in about 15 million years.

June 25, 2007
Fact #30:
95% of all life on Earth lives in the range between 300 feet below sea level and 9,000 feet above sea level.

June 26, 2007
Fact #31:
It hardly moves, but it accounts for 85% of all life on Earth: It's plankton, which consists of microscopic plants and animals that float around in the water.

June 27, 2007
Fact #32:
About 100 million tons of sand particles travel around the Earth every year, carried by breezes.

June 28, 2007
Fact #33:
Here comes the tide: The Atlantic Ocean is getting wider by an inch or more every year.

June 29, 2007
Fact #34:
In the last 10,000 years, Niagara Falls has moved about 10 miles upstream. That means that the falls are eroding at the rate of five feet a year.

June 30, 2007
Fact #35:
What's the most abundant element in the Earth crust? Oxygen. (Second most abundant: silicon.)

Subject: Every 24 Hours...

Juty 1, 2007
Fact #36:
Every 24 hours, the Earth travels more than 1.5 million miles in its orbit around the Sun.

July 2, 2007
Fact #37:
Every 24 hours, 2.5 billion adults go to work; 1 billion kids go to school.

July 3, 2007
Fact #38:
Every 24 hours, lightning strikes 8 million times.

July 4, 2007
Fact #39:
Every 24 hours, the bees of the world make 3,300 tons of honey.

the bee thing is cool...

July 5, 2007
Fact #40:
Every 24 hours, Crayola makes 5 million crayons.

July 6, 2007
Fact #41:
Every 24 hours, the world's humans produce 2.2 billion tons of poop.

July 7, 2007
Fact #42:
Every 24 hours, 200,000 Americans have surgery.

July 8, 2007
Fact #43:
Every 24 hours, two people in Sri Lanka die from poisonous snakebites.

July 9, 2007
Fact #44:
Every 24 hours, birthdays are celebrated by 16.5 million people.

July 10, 2007
Fact #45:
Every 24 hours, Americans eat 15 million hamburgers.

July 11, 2007
Fact #46:
Every 24 hours, the chickens of the world lay 2 billion eggs.

July 12, 2007
Fact #47:
Every 24 hours, the Amazon River gushes 8 trillion gallons of water into the Atlantic Ocean.

July 13, 2007
Fact #48:
Every 24 hours, 380,000 babies are born; 145,000 people die.

Subject: It's Ancient History

July 14, 2007
Fact #49:
Ancient Celtic warriors were known to fight naked. From head to toe, their skin was dyed blue.