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55
The longest day

On Venus, a day is longer than a year.


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Chug, chug, chug!

Consumption of beer worldwide is estimated to be around 125 billions liters per year, i.e. not less than 50,000 Olympic pools.


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33
Jane Cow

A cow with a name produces more milk than one without.


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32
Big Sun

The Sun alone accounts for 99.86% of the solar system’s known mass.


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41
Lonely Pope

Statistically, there are a bit more than two Popes per sq. km in the Vatican City State.


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38
Coincidence

Considering a group of 40 people, there are 89% chances that two of them are born the same day.


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48
Highest peak

The highest point of Maldives is lower than a basket on a basketball court.


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43
Lego

In 2009, there was an average number of 62 Lego bricks per human being on the planet.


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54
Bonellia and Clyde

The male Bonellia viridis, or Green Spoonworm, is so small that he lives inside the female!


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36
A folding story

You can’t fold a paper in half more than 7 times.


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73
Sniff

Traces of cocaine can be found on 90% of U.S. bills.


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45
French Resistance

Every year, the french cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris has as many visitors as Disneyland Paris.


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23
Take cover!!

Between 2000 and 3000 meteorites fall on Earth each year.


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5
Splash!

Each year, worldwide, more people die from firearms than from drowning.


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19
Drug ? No, chocolate !

Dark chocolate has the property to reduce the blood pressure level.


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83
A VERY long line

As of 2005, one hundred billion Bic pens have been sold all over the world. It represents enough ink to draw a line from here to Pluto and come back… more than 20 times.


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83
Packed in Paradise

80 billion human beings have been born on the planet since the first humans, and half of them in the last two millennia !


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18
“Foreign” languages

900 million people are native Mandarin (chinese) speakers while only 340 millions are native English speakers.


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Cyber love

1/7 of Internet users already have found a lover on the web. (Who’s next ?)


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11
Plague

Plague is not eradicated actually: the WHO took a census of 2118 cases in 2003, among which 182 were fatal.


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