Some humming birds' wings flap at a rate of nearly 100 beats per second.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites. (Now THERE's a creepy thought.....)
Saint Patrick (patron saint of Ireland) was Scottish.
The average serving of broccoli (not a favorite of a certain "conservative" personality, but one of my all-time mega-yummies) contains twice the vitamin C of an average-sized orange.
Just as the orbit of our planet around the sun is not a circle but an ellipse (a "flattened" circle), the earth is not completely round: the distance from the earth's surface to its center is 40 km more at the equator than at the poles. This is because it is spinning, so that it flattens out around the middle.
Americans spend over 4.5 billion hours each year stuck in traffic that's going nowhere in any particular hurry.
On an average day, American drivers eat up nearly 7 billion miles of pavement? roughly the distance to Pluto and back ? getting where they want to be. In the process, they consume enough oil to fill more than 150 supertankers.
